A Quote by Margaret Drabble

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.

Margaret Drabble

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Margaret Drabble
English - Novelist
Born: June 5, 1939

Nothing fails like success, because we do not learn anything from it. We only learn from failure, but we do not always learn the right things from failure. If there is a failure of expectations, that is, if the messages that we receive are not the same as those we expected, we can make three possible inferences.

Kenneth E. Boulding

Getting fired can produce a particularly bountiful payday for a CEO. Indeed, he can 'earn' more in that single day, while cleaning out his desk, than an American worker earns in a lifetime of cleaning toilets. Forget the old maxim about nothing succeeding like success: Today, in the executive suite, the all-too-prevalent rule is that nothing succeeds like failure.

Warren Buffett

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Kenneth E. Boulding

Perhaps the most difficult ethical problem of the scientific community arises not so much from conflict with other subcultures as from its own success. Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Kenneth E. Boulding

Nothing succeeds like - failure.