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How did you go bankrupt? Two ways, gradually and then suddenly.
Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises · 1926

Failure Quotations

“How did you go bankrupt? Two ways, gradually and then suddenly.”

Ernest Hemingway · The Sun Also Rises, 1926 · Primary source

“The axiom that you learn more from your failures than your successes is trite but absolutely true.”

Bill Gates · Source Code, 2025 · Primary source

“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”

Bill Gates · The Road Ahead, 1995 · Primary source

“Fear should guide you, but it should be latent.”

Bill Gates · Playboy Interview: Bill Gates, 1994 · Primary source

“If a man has failed, you will find he has dreamed instead of working. There is no way to success in our art, but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Power, 1860 · Primary source

“The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.”

Steve Jobs · Stanford Commencement Address, 2005 · Primary source

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Failure

4 authors · 6 works · 12 themes · 27 tags
Authors
Bill Gates American Entrepreneur and PhilanthropistSteve Jobs Co-founder of AppleRalph Waldo Emerson American essayist and philosopher
Works
The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway · 1926Playboy Interview: Bill Gates Bill Gates, David Rensin (interviewer) · 1994The Road Ahead Bill Gates · 1995
Themes
Gradual decline and sudden collapseHidden accumulation of riskLearning through failure
Tags
ComplacencyRisk awarenessBankruptcyFinancial decline
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