Well the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and if you're not willing to confront failure you can never find out how good you are.

As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.

So nevertheless what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.

Failure is unfortunately as common as success.

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices every one of them are leading you inexorably to either success or failure however you define those terms.

This is true enough but success is the next best thing to happiness and if you can't be happy as a success it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper truer happiness in failure.

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.