This document discusses the importance of failure in building success and learning. It contains several quotes about failure from influential figures like Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr., and Thomas Edison. The document argues that failures are learning opportunities and that true failures are people who do not learn or improve from mistakes rather than the mistakes themselves. It presents failure as a process of learning and improvement that is an inevitable part of progress rather than an ending.

1. success through failure.
Micah Baldwin
Lijit Networks
VP, Business Development and Chief Evangelist

2. success through failure.
Boulder
in the
House!
Micah Baldwin
Lijit Networks
VP, Business Development and Chief Evangelist

3. it is friday after all.

4. what makes a tech community great?

5. what makes a tech community great?
we view each success as the
community’s success and each
failure as the community’s failure.

6. “in the middle of
difficulty lies
opportunity.”

7. “in the middle of
difficulty lies
opportunity.”
albert einstein

8. “the ultimate measure of a
person is not where he or
she stands in moments of
comfort and convenience,
but where he or she stands
at times of challenge and
controversy.”

9. “the ultimate measure of a
person is not where he or
she stands in moments of
comfort and convenience,
but where he or she stands
at times of challenge and
controversy.”
martin luther king, jr.

10. i have not failed. i’ve
just found 10,000 ways
that won’t work.”

11. i have not failed. i’ve
just found 10,000 ways
that won’t work.”
thomas edison

12. “every decision I
have ever made was
(probably) wrong.”

13. “every decision I
have ever made was
(probably) wrong.”
gary vaynerchuk

14. failure is a process.

15. losing is an ending.

16. Failure Success

17. Failure Success
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18. Failure Success
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19. Failure Success
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20. Losers Success

21. Losers Success
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22. Losers Success
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23. Losers Success
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24. yeah, I’m talking to you.

25. what is worse?

27. born loser.

28. total failure.

29. born loser.
total failure.

30. in america, it is ok to fail.
it is a cardinal sin to be a loser.

31. clearly a friendster fan.

32. i’ve got shotgun?

33. failure is an event.
a loser is a person.

34. is failing in our DNA?

35. we learned everything about
failure from mom.

36. if at first you don’t succeed,
try, try again.

38. How to fail
properly

39. How to fail
properly
In three easy steps.

40. step 1: understand.

41. step 2: measure.

42. step 3: anticipate.

43. “sometimes, the
best way to learn to
duck, is get punched
in the face.”

44. “sometimes, the
best way to learn to
duck, is get punched
in the face.”
micah baldwin
learntoduck.com

45. Micah Baldwin
Lijit Networks
TEXT “micah” to 50500
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