Sentences with phrase «big big failure»

Breakdown was a big big failure which got many of us excited for nothing.

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In 2012, TOMS Shoes founder Blake Mycoskie called failure «an inevitable part of thinking big and going after what you're really passionate about.»

STEVE Carre has walked both sides of the business street - in big and small firms - and believes there's a touch of arrogance about the former's failure to recognise the value of the latter.

Nor is the government's failure to tax big inheritances or the universities» failure to control costs.

But it had big potential, for either success or failure.

TORONTO, May 1 - For about an hour and 11 minutes last Friday afternoon, traders in Canada's biggest stock exchanges were left in the dark, as the stock market operator battled with a hardware failure.

It looks like Nintendo is learning from its failure with the Wii U, supplying a steady beat of big games that can be played only on the Nintendo Switch.

In entrepreneurship, the biggest thing we often find ourselves unprepared for is failure.

«His failure to do so sends the message that it's not really a big deal and not worth his time.»

Fear of failure is one of the biggest things that holds entrepreneurs back.

Unless there is some unlikely action on this issue by the end of the year, his inability to get AMPs established — and thereby get supposedly world - leading net neutrality rules to be taken seriously by ISPs — will easily go down as his biggest failure at the CRTC.

For big food processors like Maple Leaf, the only way to offer that and still make a profit is by consolidating into big, modern plants, so you can benefit from scale and keep up with the pack, because, Grier warns, not doing so would guarantee failure.

The lessons learned from those failures illuminate new ideas and can ultimately drive your teams to create the next big thing.

Nothing saps your confidence faster than creating a big failure where someone else was made a victim.

Based on an impressive database of intensive interviews with executives, it turns out that big failures and small egos are among the building blocks of great leadership,» notes Grant of this one, again due out March 6.

Eric Mathews, founder and CEO, of Start Co, says a big cause of failure is «building something nobody wants.

Failure is a part of life, and maybe even a bigger part of business.

Joseph Bush, executive director of Worcester CleanTech Incubator, thinks «inability to recruit, build and manage a team of people smarter than oneself» is a big factor in startup failure.

In commercial aviation, the big, long - established carriers, often still referred to as «full - service» airlines, set themselves up for failure by continuing to oversell their services, even though they ceased to provide great service long ago.

Big failures mean you had courage.

Perhaps most important, we need to keep an eye on the bigger picture — the future of our careers, our company's main objectives — and stop sweating the small stuff, keeping both cheer - worthy successes and heartbreaking failures in perspective.

Once you secure that vision concretely, it is much easier to focus because you hold yourself accountable to a bigger framework that keeps you on track and limits the ability of distractions or failures to throw you off.

And often, it can take years of failures to get to the big success.

In a recent Big Think video Sanders explained that many of us have a warped image of creators and the creative process in our heads — and our false beliefs set us up for creative failure.

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One of the biggest challenges for first - time buyers and investors, the panel agrees, is shutting out negativity and overcoming the fear of failure.

«The biggest failure of the larger polling community,» he said, «was that they were implying that this race was not as close as it was.»

«Tapping into the right network of individuals who can help you succeed is one of the biggest determinants for success or failure of any early stage business,» Suster says.

The dark comedy Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri won big at the Golden Globes earlier this year, but the film has also seen a sustained backlash from critics over its questionable ending and a perceived failure in fleshing out the movie's non-white characters.

«Surrounding me were 10 of the smartest, most capable people I knew... and I had to tell them about my biggest failure,» Braun said.

He's a serial entrepreneur who had big failures (Rock Star Games) and great successes (Epihpany, sold for $ 329 million in 2005), and a best - selling author in his own right.

Clinically depressed and occasionally contemplating suicide, she considered herself as «poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless,» and later would look back on that time in her life and say she was «the biggest failure I knew.»

What did you learn from your biggest failure?

We live in a unique time when innovation is our biggest commodity, but it demands a few failures along the way.

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The biggest congressional setback for the drug industry this year — other than the advent of Martin Shkreli — has been the Senate's failure to pass a medical innovation bill.

The government's failure to tackle the big underlying problem — deep rooted corruption and mismanagement in Brasilia — was «distressing,» said one fund manager who trades sovereign debt.

To me the biggest failure is a mistake you don't learn from or remember.

This turned my biggest fear into my biggest failure as a woman entrepreneur.

«An exceptionally short - lived marriage had imploded, and I was jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless... By every usual standard, I was the biggest failure I knew,» Rowling said during a 2008 Harvard University commencement speech.

Failure is not the end, think big but keep it simple and keep on learning are just a few entrepreneurial truisms you can takeaway from the new TV series.

Rewards - based crowdfunding has had surprisingly few instances of fraud or massive failures to fulfill rewards or promises, but when they happen, they are big news.

Miller explains, «If you are focused on the small failures and successes, you may miss out on how those failures or successes are affecting the big picture.»

Indiegogo's co-founder Danae Ringelmann talks about two blockbuster campaigns that made our Top 100 list, the platform's biggest «failure», and what success really means in the age of crowdfunding.

LONDON, Jan 15 (Reuters)- Carillion collapsed on Monday when its banks pulled the plug, triggering Britain's biggest corporate failure in a decade and forcing the government to step in to guarantee public services from school meals to roadworks.

LONDON, Jan 15 - Carillion collapsed on Monday when its banks pulled the plug, triggering Britain's biggest corporate failure in a decade and forcing the government to step in to guarantee public services from school meals to roadworks.

Biggest failure: Ha.

Steve Jobs» narrative is one of big failures and even greater redemptions.

Biggest failure: Allowing a negative situation to spiral downward, and then choosing to quit rather than salvage the situation through small, positive steps

Biggest failure: We spent a year attempting to create a new human potential oriented internet portal, and we never got it off the ground.