At the same time, Kodak's huge investment in digital photography has failed to pay off.

A year later, John's other investment has failed and he is a ruined man.

Those investments, though, failed to pay off for Disney and proved to be money losers.

You see, from the very outset, I knew that this investment would fail.

"The rule of thumb is that your first investment will fail," he said.

After all, their retirement benefits would be guaranteed if the investment failed.

The investment though failed to provide results on the pitch.

This investment ultimately failed and he needed to look for an income.

Sometimes the Bank's investments fail in other ways, too, causing environmental or social harm.

The investments failed, and all the money was now gone, the court was told, With little or no chance of anyone getting it back.