In certain businesses, I would say 10 failures to one success is a perfectly acceptable ratio. Because the failures die pretty quickly, they're not that expensive, and the successes can be really huge.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
Failure is unfortunately as common as success.
Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
There's no formula for success in this business. You just do the best you can.
If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.
I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.
Success is 99 percent failure.