Failure Quote by Dan Siroker

A while back, I came across a line attributed to IBM founder Thomas Watson. If you want to achieve excellence, he said, you can…

— Tom Peters

“It’s been said every institution is nothing more, but the extended shadow of one person. In IBM’s case, that was Thomas J. Watson, Sr.”

— BusinessNews Publishing

We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have…

— Adam Osborne

I'm the ninth CEO of IBM. Every one of my predecessors has steered through a technological shift, and every one left the company in…

— Ginni Rometty

“If you want to double your success rate, triple your failure rate.”

— Cory Doctorow

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

— Anonymous

If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

— Anonymous

“IBM today has a split personality in this regard because top executives are paid well while lower executives and workers in general are paid…

— Robert Cringely

When asked how to achieve success more rapidly, came the quick reply, 'Double your failure rate'.

— Thomas J. Watson

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and…

— Thomas J. Watson

“Failure is not a pre-requisite for success. Already successful entrepreneurs are far more likely to succeed again than who failed”

— Jason Fried

“What can I do more to increase the chances of success and what can I do less to reduce the chances of failure?”

— Sukant Ratnakar