But I had to work ten times as hard to get half the attention.

I will not say that I failed a 1000 times but that I found 1000 ways to fail.

Improvement at anything is based on a thousand of tiny failures, ...and the magnitude of your success is based on how many times you've failed at something.

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

I learned to recognize failure.

I quit many times but I never gave up; I learned from my failures and arose each time even more determined to try again.

If you want to double your success rate, triple your failure rate.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

The secret of success is to triple your rate of failure.

The critics only made me work harder.

So the more things you do, the less successful you are at any one of them.

He finds that for many, falling into “the undisciplined pursuit of more” was a key reason for failure.

Failures plagued me. Things I had omitted or ignored, neglected. What I should have given and hadn’t. I felt the biting pang of every unfulfillment.

Michelangelo continued to take on projects far beyond — impossibly beyond — his skill level. Most people are afraid to commit fully to the 10x process because it inevitably requires letting go of your current identity, circumstances, and comfort zone.