"Once again, words fail me as I attempt to write this letter of recommendation, " Gardner began.
With respect to this understanding of too-big-to-fail, let me be very clear: It is wrong.
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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.
It has always surprised me how companies fail to appreciate how a good argument usually wins the day.
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But Lehman Brothers was allowed to fail for reasons that escaped me.
The second thing is they told me it would fail miserably.
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The most meaningful support I received early on as a CEO was from the dominant board member who told me I was doing great, but I would fail at some things and he would be there for me when I did.
He didn't say if your crops fail, don't give me any tithe or if you have a bumper crop, give me triple tithe.
It's the moment every athlete trains their whole life for, and even an anti-sportswoman like me couldn't fail to be thrilled by the sight of thousands of supporters yelling as I jogged, hobbled, and, yes, for the last few hundred yards, RAN towards that finish line, grinning.
"They all wished me luck and told me I was going to fail, " says Getson.
One of the things that drives me is the excitement that I could fail.
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Many readers asked me whether I had similar theories about why businesses fail.
Blondy, likely in his early sixties, always seemed to me terrifyingly vital, but those in their early sixties might suddenly fail.
This constant feedback is occasionally agonizing when readers fail to materialize, but I firmly believe that this continual criticism is helping me become a more authentic writer and human being as well.
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It always amazes me when people who are deeply in debt to their credit card companies fail to do everything in their power to pay it off immediately.
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Let me use an example to illustrate why many of our solutions to social problems fail because we overlook that we are facing an entrepreneurial problem.
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Let me end by reviewing the scale of the peril that we are facing if we fail to act.
As many times as I recall, and all of you who are not family members like me, have recalled this incident time and again over the last 10 years, I never fail to be astonished, literally astonished by the courage they demonstrated.
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