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My grandfather used to say, "If you don't fail every now and then, you are not doing enough."

Failure is a good thing. It is from failure that new things are learned. I am willing to fail if that failure ultimately leads to riches. In a startup failures and riches are not mutually exclusive if the entrepreneurs are willing to learn from their failures.

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That depends entirely on whether the failure was worth the risk and amount that was actually learned. I can see this often not being the case.

My grandmother used to say, "If you look for trouble hard enough, you'll probably find it."

Seems to be a lot of that going around on the internet these days.

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