If I fail my driving test, how long will I have to wait before I can take it again?
For all my exuberance, I did not fail to understand that I might have left my wife but I would still be able to keep an eye on her.
In my book, Why People Fail, which has just been released in the USA, I recommend you ask the following questions.
For my own part, I fail to see the purpose of not cooperating with China when it comes to the space program.
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It seems that each year, I'm so wrapped up in the too-brief strawberry season that I fail to pay my respects to the too-brief cherry season.
We always have setbacks, obstacles and serious failures along the way. (For more on this buy my recent book, Why People Fail).
Anybody who has seen my movies knows that we all fail.
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What's more, in my experience, many public funds fail to submit their reported rates of return to the sorts of audits and verification money managers in the private sector regard as mandatory.
It is that instead of Buffett lending that money to Bank of America and Goldman and any others he is propping up(which in my opinion should be allowed to fail and fail hard so as to prevent their business models from contaminating the economic picture ever again) is for him to use much less of it in a philanthropic manner.
This is the secret that led to the simple realization of my greatest trait that drives my success: I have learned to Fail Up.
With 242 bank failures since the end of 2007 and my prediction that 500 to 800 will fail by early 2013, community banks need help.
Instead, it took a visit to my parents and a wine-fueled kitchen confessional, during which it became apparent my irrational fear that the dough would fail to rise was inherited.
In fact, I probably did fail algebra, but I talked my way into a C-.
The FDIC closed only one bank last Friday bringing the total for 2010 to 109 failures still on track for my prediction that 150 to 200 banks will fail this year.
My prediction is that 500 to 800 banks will fail by the end of 2012 into 2013.
Dan took a look around my almost pathologically cluttered cubicle, predicted I would fail hard and walked away laughing.
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Even if we fail, as I have done many times in my life, we learn what not to do by experience and doing the new.
While I wasn't especially bent on winning for my own sake, I was keenly aware that my family, school, hometown and the local sponsoring newspaper had invested an awful lot of time, cash and care into my trip to Washington, and I did not want to fail them.
The paradox explored in my book The Innovator's Dilemma is that successful companies can fail by making the "right" decisions in the wrong situations.
My local shoe store is not and, unfortunately, will likely fail.
My guess is that nationally, a majority of Pell Grants recipients fail to graduate within six years of entering college, and probably roughly two-thirds fail to graduate within four years.
And of course there are the guys who run that five person company from the top of a strip mall and yet never fail to give me advice on how I can run my business better.
But I can make sure -- I can do my best to make certain that they get a chance to succeed or fail on their own merits, just like I did.
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My husband paid regularly for his son through private arrangement, every month without fail, for three years, plus a large lump sum on separation, until his ex-partner decided she was "going to use the CSA to have him for every last penny" (her words).
My whole life, I have been presented with every opportunity to try, to fail, to learn, to change, and to be inspired.
In my field we have scores of models that are extremely good at explanation but which fail at prediction because some tiny parameter has been left out.
Or maybe he set out on a chore that was doomed to fail because he could find no error in the facts as stated in my piece?
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