“Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.”– Chuck Noll Related Quotes “Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an ‘A’ pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, that’s not how it works.”– Eric Ries “But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.”– Kathy Ireland “Not failure, but low aim, is crime.”– James Russell Lowell