I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure which is, Try to please everybody.
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure which is, Try to please everybody.

Similar Herbert B. Swope quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- Don’t let other people define your vision of your future.
- I’m convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the nonsuccessful ones is pure perseverance.
- Data may disappoint, but it never lies.
- Don’t try to mine gold when you can sell shovels.
- Hey, if we’re going to make things in our life, we might as well make them beautiful.
- Act NOW on those ideas! As they say, you snooze you lose. Or as I say, if you BEGIN you WIN.
- The framework I found which made the decision incredibly easy was what I called – which only a nerd would call – a ‘regret minimization framework’.
- Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast.
- In the end, every startup is different. But in the beginning every startup is the same.
- We have essentially no patents in SpaceX. If we published patents, it would be farcical, because the Chinese would just use them as a recipe book.
- Normal is where innovation goes to die.
- Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.
- If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut
- If you don’t appreciate your customers, someone else will.
- Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.
- Nothing is worse to an organisation than culture of fear
- There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
- You learn more from failure than from successes. Failure builds character.
- The secret to success is constancy of purpose.