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Larry Ellison

American businessman

United States · b. 1944

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Question How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Do you have a favourite failure? Failure & regret read 60 other answers →
Oh, absolutely. I think most overachievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure. Unless failure gets very close and very nearby that fear doesn’t reach profound levels, but it drives us. It drives me to work very hard.
Recorded Academy of Achievement, Academy of Achievement interview, San Francisco, California, 1 May 1997 source ↗

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