Recognize the difference between good and bad failures, i.e. those initiatives that fail because they were high risk encountered unpredictable pitfalls and those that failed because of poor planning, poor management and poor execution.
Many people fail to find their passion because they either fail to search methodically or search persistently.
They inevitably fail their people, however, because they have no grasp of what makes a life worthwhile.
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Contributing factors aside, most startups fail because they run out of money or time.
Raising money is difficult and distracting, and most small businesses fail because they run out of cash.
This localism underscores one of Mr Treichl's deeply held beliefs: that big banks fail because they become unmanageable.
Because they fail to understand the basically conservative nature of real financial planning, and the planners they go to are greedy.
He argues that these studies are flawed because they fail to control for other factors, such as pre-existing psychological complaints or other drug use.
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Some analysts said Target's new tactics are unlikely to reverse the showrooming trend, because they fail to address the root problems traditional retailers face.
History shows that development strategies that overlook the cultural factor are doomed to fail because they do not attract the support of the targeted populations.
Too often, systems for information analysis and process automation fail because they are not designed as a whole system with people and machines working in harmony.
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As he explained it, innovative projects often succeed at the micro level or within pilot environments but ultimately fail because they cannot be taken to scale.
Many youth programmes fail because they are simply repeating the same information, reckons Neil Wragg, director of Youth At Risk, a charity that runs mentoring programmes for teenagers.
They fail, first, because the grandeur of the occasion inspires new presidents and their teams to overblown rhetoric, even as their political advisers steer them away from too specific commitments.
Banks fail because they either run out of capital to support their ongoing operations, their asset values drop below that of their liabilities, or fraud forces regulators to step in and take over.
Labour's Mike Gapes said it was in Britain's "national interest" for the eurozone to succeed, and claimed Conservative MPs wanted the euro to fail because they were opposed to monetary union.
Medlock says he has seen owners fail because they try to run their team like they might a bank, say, or a real estate company--skipping the laborious promotional work it takes to win sponsors and fans.
The short answer is that spending impacts do not account for money leakages, and thus, are an inferior measure of economic impact because they fail to consider how much of the new money is actually retained locally.
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As the Audit Commission recently pointed out, many treatment services are wasted or ineffective because they fail to deal with the other problems - mental health, housing, social care - which often afflict the lives of addicts.
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There is considerable worry by many observers of the gas industry that federal figures of overall greenhouse-gas-emissions reductions may be misleading because they fail to account for the impact of natural gas that leaks into the atmosphere from drilling and pipelines.
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At a time when the U.S. economy and the stock market are looking for a leg-up, corporate executives are leaving economic development opportunities on the table because they fail to invest, engage and learn more about how to connect culturally with this vibrant Hispanic consumer segment.
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The heavily indebted countries will either fail to implement the necessary measures or, if they do, they will fail to meet their targets because of collapsing demand.
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And, critically, they can borrow cheaply because they are deemed too big to fail.
Students like creative writing because they cannot fail, since self-expression is difficult to mark.
"The No. 1 reason why businesses fail is because they run out of cash, " says Mary Goodman, president of Bottom Line Up Enterprises, an Arizona-based business consulting firm for small and mid-sized firms.
Because they will fail miserably.
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President Obama is on his way back from France where he just met with the leaders of the 20 largest economies in the world, where he urged our European friends to step up and stabilize their own economies because if they fail, it will affect the whole world.
If they collect the taxes and fail to remit, they can go to jail because in collecting the sales tax they are an agent of the State and failure to remit is something like embezzlement.
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