If I succeed in business but fail as a father, then I've failed.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'
People say you don't need a father to be successful. I take offense to that.
I've been the type of father who tries desperately to be perfect but doesn't succeed all the time.
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.
When I started Go Daddy, I tried many things - like building networks and selling education - and none of it panned out. I lost millions of dollars the first couple of years. I made a lot of wrong turns, but that's the process of being successful in business.
I've taken blame about being a bad father - if being a bad father is working your butt off trying to create a career at one time.
You can't fail. The further you fall, the greater the opportunity for growth and change.
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.