“Failure inspires winners.”

Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!

Source: Rich Dad, Poor Dad

Source: The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006), Chapter 4, A Brief History of Risk Denial, p. 81

Calling the last out of the :w:1982 World Series. Bruce Sutter struck out Gorman Thomas.
1980s

Source: Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder

Twitter post https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1005800974592757760 (10 June 2018)
2010s, 2018

“Game II,” p. 97
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Game”

"As I Please" (1943–1947)
Context: During part of 1941 and 1942, when the Luftwaffe was busy in Russia, the German radio regaled its home audience with stories of devastating air raids on London. Now, we are aware that those raids did not happen. But what use would our knowledge be if the Germans conquered Britain? For the purpose of a future historian, did those raids happen, or didn't they? The answer is: If Hitler survives, they happened, and if he falls they didn't happen. So with innumerable other events of the past ten or twenty years. Is the Protocols of the Elders of Zion a genuine document? Did Trotsky plot with the Nazis? How many German aeroplanes were shot down in the Battle of Britain? Does Europe welcome the New Order? In no case do you get one answer which is universally accepted because it is true: in each case you get a number of totally incompatible answers, one of which is finally adopted as the result of a physical struggle. History is written by the winners.

Samuli Paronen, quoted in: Pasi Sahlberg (2015), Finnish Lessons 2.0. p. 139