“If you want to double your success rate, triple your failure rate.”
Cory Doctorow book Pirate Cinema
Pirate Cinema
Variant: you want to double your success rate, triple your failure rate.
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“If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.”
Thomas Watson, Jr. (1914–1993) American businessman and diplomat
Colin Powell (1937) Former U.S. Secretary of State and retired four-star general
As quoted in The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell (2003) by Oren Harari, p. 164.
2000s
Janeane Garofalo (1964) comedian, actress, political activist, writer
Majority Report, July 22, 2005 broadcast
Majority Report
Context: You know George W. Bush is a war-time president, he says - proudly. Guess what. War is failure! When you are at war, you have failed! When you have gone to a war of choice and lied about it, you're a double-triple, triple-quadruple failure! Or a warlord. It's called a warlord in other countries. A war time president here. One man's ceiling I guess is another man's floor. George Bush is a warlord. He's a failure!
“If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.”
Tom Watson (1874–1956) American businessman
Attributed to Watson in: Roger von Oech (1982), A Whack on the Side of the Head and Industrial participation (1987) Nr 594-603. p. 262.
“Someone else's success is not your failure.”
Alexandra Robbins book The Overachievers
The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids
“My failure is a window for your success.”
Ron English (1959) American artist
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
“Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”
Mrs Patrick Campbell (1895–1940) British stage actress
No definite source has been found for this statement; though most often attributed to Sir Winston Churchill, and sometimes to Abraham Lincoln, it has only rarely been attributed to Campbell.
Disputed
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago