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		I do not know how history will judge me, but let me say that I've spent a lot of time and energy trying to transform the Tatas from a patriarchal concern to an institutional enterprise. It would, therefore, be a mark of failure on my part if it were perceived that Ratan Tata epitomises the Group's success. What I have done is establish growth mechanisms, play down individuals and play up the team that has made the companies what they are. I, for one, am not the kind who loves dwelling on the 'I'. If history remembers me at all, I hope it will be for this transformation.
	
	  Ratan Tata Ratan Tata
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		Every individual suffers from the fear of failure, but you can change your destiny only when you overcome it.
	
	  Anupam Kher Anupam Kher
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		In a way, I think of the press as my colleagues. I don't want to throw hand grenades at people who do something that's pretty similar to what I do. But at the same time, we all need to take ourselves seriously and be responsible as professionals. And there was a collective failure in the treatment of Christopher Jefferies.
	
	  Peter Morgan Peter Morgan
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		I can't narrow either one down to just one thing. I've rolled the dice and had both success and failure. I can tell you that right now we're on a roll with the talk show. Everything is good with the TV show.
	
	  Wendy Williams Wendy Williams
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		Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions.
	
	  Brian Tracy Brian Tracy
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		If you're so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.
	
	  Mario Andretti Mario Andretti
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		War remains the decisive human failure.
	
	  John Kenneth Galbraith John Kenneth Galbraith
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		I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.
	
	  Dave Matthews
			
			
				Dave Matthews Band Dave Matthews
			
			
				Dave Matthews Band
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		Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.
	
	  Lev Yilmaz Lev Yilmaz
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		“Everyone had a lesson waiting, and they learned it with blood. Sometimes that's how it goes. People learn from failure and tragedy, not from success.”
	
	  C Robert Cargill C Robert Cargill
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		By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.
	
	  Jonathan Kozol Jonathan Kozol
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		You can never become a great man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear. It is impossible for an anxious person, a worried one, or a fearful one to perceive truth; all things are distorted and thrown out of their proper relations by such mental states, and those who are in them cannot read the thoughts of God.
	
	  Wallace D. Wattles Wallace D. Wattles