Business Philosophy

It is not the critic who counts,

not the man who points out how
the strong man stumbles,

or where the doer of deeds could
have done them better.

That credit belongs to the man in
the arena,

whose face is marred by dust and
sweat and blood;

who errs, and comes short again
and again

because there is no effort without
error and shortcoming

but who does actually strive to do
the deeds

who knows the great enthusiasms,
the great devotions,

who spends himself in a worthy
cause;

who at best knows in the end that
triumph of high achievement,

and who at worst, if he fails, at least
fails while daring greatly,

so that his place shall never be with
those cold and timid souls

who know neither victory or defeat

The Critic
By Theodore Roosevelt