“On average, successful people have had many more failures that unsuccessful people.”
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“Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.”

Source: Inner Management: In the Presence of the Master

This is presented as a statement of 1877, as quoted in From Telegraph to Light Bulb with Thomas Edison (2007) by Deborah Headstrom-Page, p. 22.
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“Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.”

“People who avoid failure also avoid success.”
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“Relatively unsuccessful firms would be more likely to innovate than relatively successful firms.”
Source: A behavioral theory of the firm, 1959, p. 188