A Quote by Thomas Watson

The fastest way to succeed is to double your rate of failure. — © Thomas Watson
The fastest way to succeed is to double your rate of failure.

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Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure.
If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.
Do you want to succeed? Then, double you rate of failure. Success lies on the far side of failure.
The way to succeed is to double your error rate.
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
To double your successes, you might have to double your failure rate.
Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.
When asked how to achieve success more rapidly, came the quick reply, 'Double your failure rate'.
You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that is through failure, and the only way to succeed through failure is just banging your head against the wall over and over until you get to that interesting thing on the other side.
Cultivate your desire for success to be greater than the fear of failure; Failure is merely a pitstop between where you stand and success. Failure allows you to learn the fastest; Failure inspires winners and defeats losers.
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
The fastest way for you to succeed is by piggy-backing on the good advice and counsel of men and women who have already spent years leaning how to succeed. When you do this on a regular and systematic basis, you will open up doors of opportunity and possibilities for you that today you cannot even imagine.
Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.
If you want to double your success ratio, you have to double your failure ratio.
It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying through the stratosphere, or landing on the moon. First-rate pursuits - involving, as they must, trying to understand what life is about and trying to convey that understanding - inevitably result in a sense of failure. A Napoleon, a Churchill, or a Roosevelt can feel himself to be successful, but never a Socrates, a Pascal, or a Blake. Understanding is forever unattainable.
Don't be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.
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