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Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes Into Stepping Stones for Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as failure)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,463 ratings — published 1982
Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as failure)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,253 ratings — published 2011
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as failure)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,184 ratings — published 2004
Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as failure)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,747 ratings — published 2023
The Most Magnificent Thing (Most Magnificent, 1)
by (shelved 6 times as failure)
avg rating 4.28 — 8,976 ratings — published 2014
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as failure)
avg rating 4.20 — 31,956 ratings — published 2000
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as failure)
avg rating 4.06 — 20,941 ratings — published 2013
How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In (Good to Great, 4)
by (shelved 5 times as failure)
avg rating 3.99 — 10,477 ratings — published 2009
The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as failure)
avg rating 4.14 — 7,725 ratings — published 2014
Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as failure)
avg rating 4.08 — 28,926 ratings — published 2015
Rosie Revere, Engineer: A Picture Book (The Questioneers)
by (shelved 5 times as failure)
avg rating 4.46 — 12,994 ratings — published 2013
The Logic of Failure: Recognizing and Avoiding Error in Complex Situations (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as failure)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,022 ratings — published 1996
Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction and Economics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as failure)
avg rating 3.48 — 391 ratings — published 2005
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as failure)
avg rating 4.40 — 284,855 ratings — published 2018
What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as failure)
avg rating 3.89 — 5,569 ratings — published 1994
Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as failure)
avg rating 4.28 — 14,741 ratings — published 2015
Billion-Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as failure)
avg rating 3.85 — 792 ratings — published 2008
Fail Fast, Fail Often: How Losing Can Help You Win (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as failure)
avg rating 3.97 — 859 ratings — published 2013
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as failure)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,021,707 ratings — published 2006
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as failure)
avg rating 4.15 — 102,132 ratings — published 2014
How to Fail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as failure)
avg rating 3.93 — 13,800 ratings — published 2019
The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)
by (shelved 3 times as failure)
avg rating 3.78 — 38,228 ratings — published 2007
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as failure)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,373,112 ratings — published 2011
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as failure)
avg rating 4.22 — 28,463 ratings — published 2003
How Children Fail (Classics in Child Development)
by (shelved 3 times as failure)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,018 ratings — published 1964
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as failure)
avg rating 4.09 — 178,723 ratings — published 2006
The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as failure)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,356 ratings — published 2014
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as failure)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,524 ratings — published 1985
Failure is a Teacher: (Penguin Petit)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.17 — 6 ratings — published
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.15 — 407,092 ratings — published 2014
I Did It! (I Like to Read Comics)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 3.74 — 311 ratings — published 2022
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,407,179 ratings — published 2022
Knitting for Dogs (Library Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.14 — 291 ratings — published
A Kids Book About Failure (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.46 — 96 ratings — published
Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.13 — 497 ratings — published
Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,399 ratings — published 2015
Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.09 — 13,539 ratings — published 2020
Leif and the Fall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 3.72 — 430 ratings — published 2020
Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn't Change the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 3.97 — 833 ratings — published 2001
Emotional First Aid: Practical Strategies for Treating Failure, Rejection, Guilt, and Other Everyday Psychological Injuries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 3.87 — 4,519 ratings — published 2013
The Magical Yet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,027 ratings — published 2020
Drift into Failure (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.01 — 344 ratings — published 2011
Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,126,576 ratings — published 2012
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.36 — 67,352 ratings — published 2019
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.09 — 64,882 ratings — published 2012
Failure: Why Science Is so Successful (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 3.81 — 327 ratings — published 2015
Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 3.91 — 9,074 ratings — published 2009
Hannibal and Me: What History's Greatest Military Strategist Can Teach Us About Success and Failu re (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.27 — 814 ratings — published 2012
Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 3.86 — 30,652 ratings — published 2007
“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
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“Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”
― Believing in Ourselves: The Wisdom of Women
― Believing in Ourselves: The Wisdom of Women
