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Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes Into Stepping Stones for Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 12,639 ratings — published 1982
Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as failure)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,266 ratings — published 2011
Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as failure)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,920 ratings — published 2023
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as failure)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,953 ratings — published 2004
The Most Magnificent Thing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 9,139 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 — 32,596 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 — 21,328 ratings — published 2013
What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as failure)
avg rating 3.89 — 5,643 ratings — published 1994
Billion-Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 806 ratings — published 2008
How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In (Good to Great, 4)
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avg rating 3.99 — 10,731 ratings — published 2009
Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as failure)
avg rating 4.08 — 29,087 ratings — published 2015
Rosie Revere, Engineer (The Questioneers (Picture Books) #2)
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avg rating 4.46 — 13,123 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 — 1,041 ratings — published 1996
Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction and Economics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as failure)
avg rating 3.48 — 395 ratings — published 2005
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 292,580 ratings — published 2018
Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as failure)
avg rating 4.27 — 15,156 ratings — published 2015
The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 7,978 ratings — published 2014
Fail Fast, Fail Often: How Losing Can Help You Win (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 865 ratings — published 2013
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
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avg rating 4.48 — 1,094,450 ratings — published 2006
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 105,541 ratings — published 2014
How to Fail (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 14,075 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 — 38,780 ratings — published 2007
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as failure)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,397,178 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 — 29,380 ratings — published 2003
How Children Fail (Classics in Child Development)
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avg rating 4.23 — 2,032 ratings — published 1964
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 183,456 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 — 1,367 ratings — published 2014
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as failure)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,588 ratings — published 1985
Failure is a Teacher: (Penguin Petit)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 3.75 — 8 ratings — published
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.14 — 423,044 ratings — published 2014
I Did It! (I Like to Read Comics)
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avg rating 3.74 — 318 ratings — published 2022
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,482,201 ratings — published 2022
Knitting for Dogs (Library Binding)
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avg rating 4.14 — 299 ratings — published
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 7,438 ratings — published 2010
A Kids Book About Failure (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.45 — 98 ratings — published
Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 506 ratings — published
Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.98 — 5,479 ratings — published 2015
Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 13,735 ratings — published 2020
Leif and the Fall (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 446 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 — 848 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 — 4,595 ratings — published 2013
The Magical Yet (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 2,124 ratings — published 2020
Drift into Failure (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 352 ratings — published 2011
Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,158,840 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 — 72,312 ratings — published 2019
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.08 — 67,813 ratings — published 2012
Failure: Why Science Is so Successful (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 3.82 — 330 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 3.90 — 9,094 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 — 823 ratings — published 2012
“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
“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”
― The Last Lecture
― The Last Lecture
