For Want of a Nail
A good rule of thumb for a lot of things in life is that everything that can break will eventually break. So if many things rely on one thing working, and that thing breaks, you are counting the days to catastrophe. That’s a single point of failure.
Morgan Housel • The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
Often if an accident happens to a gentleman’s legs, they can be mended; but if a similar accident happens to the legs of his pantaloons, there is no help for it; for he considers, not what is truly respectable, but what is respected.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.
James Allen • Think And Grow Rich (1937 Edition)
“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter
hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as
much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first
blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last
blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”
hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as
much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first
blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last
blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”
A quote by Jacob A. Riis
LACK OF CAPITAL. This is a common cause of failure among those who start out in business for the first time, without sufficient reserve of capital to absorb the shock of their mistakes, and to carry them over until they have established a REPUTATION.
James Allen • Think And Grow Rich (1937 Edition)
“Suckcess” is what poet Jean Cocteau was referring to when he said, “There is a kind of success worse than failure.”
Austin Kleon • Keep Going: a book by Austin Kleon
sari added
want. Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men. If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little there, and throw one arch at least over the darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us.