“If you want to double your success rate, triple your failure rate.”
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American businessman and diplomat 1914–1993Related quotes
“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.
“You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.”
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(1946) 45th President of the United States of America
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Nas
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“You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures.”
Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Liza Minnelli
(1946) American actress and singer
Liza Minelli, as quoted in "Liza Minelli 'Never Felt Better' Despite Tabloids' Whispers" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rmRGAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6ugMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3577%2C2269544 by Douglas J. Rowe, in TV Plus: The Schenectady Sunday Gazette Supplement (June 9, 1996), p. 4
Context: It really scared me to do what Mom did because I never did anything that she did. I promised her that I would never sing her songs, and I kept my promise. "You sing them better than anybody. I don't want to be a second-rate example of you. I want to be a first-rate example of myself."