“Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.”
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Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.
All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
And obviously, with hindsight now, now knowing what went on in the company, it would have been absolutely appropriate back then for us to have the chief executive of the company, most senior person in the United Kingdom, come and answer for the policy they were pursuing. And we ducked that, and frankly that's a failure of Parliament.
Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.
