Russell Ackoff
Russell Ackoff

Another common deficiency is the failure of some panaceas to take into account a social system's developmental responsibilities to its stakeholders.

James Agate
James Agate

The worst of failure in this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.

Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed

He was a close friend of Zakir Husain, the third President of India. It was a coincidence and a tribute to their friendship that both occupied the highest position of the land, died in harness of heart failure and collapsed in the same bathroom of the Rashtrapathi Bhavan.

Madeleine K. Albright
Madeleine K. Albright

My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes.

Victoria Alexander
Victoria Alexander

As I have yet to meet a gentleman I wished to spend the rest of my days with, I would say the failure was on their part rather than mine.

Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

Saul Alinsky
Saul Alinsky

The seventh rule of the ethics of means and ends is that generally success or failure is a mighty determinant of ethics. The judgment of history leans heavily on the outcome of success or failure; it spells the difference between the traitor and the patriotic hero. There can be no such thing as a successful traitor, for if one succeeds he becomes a founding father.

Paul Allen
Paul Allen

In my experience, each failure contains the seeds of your next success—if you are willing to learn from it.

Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan
Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan

Emotional Amoral Egoism indicates that ethnic conflict should be understood in terms of a reaction to a failure to satisfy a group’s basic physiological, security and ego needs due to discrimination, experienced by a group whose relations are premised, above all, on cultural affinities.

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

The real explanation of this failure of Hindu-Muslim unity lies in the failure to realize that what stands between the Hindus and Muslims is not a mere matter of difference, and that this antagonism is not to be attributed to material causes. It is formed by causes which take their origin in historical, religious, cultural and social antipathy, of which political antipathy is only a reflection.

These form one deep river of discontent which, being regularly fed by these sources, keeps on mounting to a head and overflowing its ordinary channels. Any current of water flowing from another source, however pure, when it joins it, instead of altering the colour or diluting its strength becomes lost in the main stream. The silt of this antagonism which this current has deposited, has become

permanent and deep.