Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.
People talk about the pain of defeat, but I think defeat has a lot of value. I think the wound of victory can be even more damaging than defeat. Very few people really know how to win.
For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.
The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.
It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
Some of my competitors overlook the importance of knowing as much as possible about their opponents, but I think that it is an invaluable asset that I have gained from working.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.