“If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.”
Thomas Watson, Jr. (1914–1993) American businessman and diplomat
“If you want to double your success rate, triple your failure rate.”
— Cory Doctorow, book Pirate Cinema
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Variant: you want to double your success rate, triple your failure rate.
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