So if an idea fails, don't blame the person who made the original suggestion.

When ideas do fail, try to analyse what went wrong.

In the past, that terrible idea has failed to pass on its own merits.

Was that preferable to facing the truth when those people and ideas failed him?

Planning for the project began in 1925 but the idea failed due to a lack of funding and political pressure.

A good idea and solid production value that due to factors outside of their control failed to reach its potential.

If my idea failed, at least nobody would get hurt.

The ideas of the elites who have run the Government, he said, had failed.

These soldiers, when instituted, had no training and the idea failed.

Both ideas failed, he said, because he simply ran out of money.