Failure and success

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” Michael Jordan

"Thomas Edison understood the profound secret that to succeed you have to be willing to fail and fail fast. To Edison all failure provided valuable information that he could use to correct his course, and lead him to eventual success." [1]

His genius he was quite content 
in one brief sentence to define; 
Of inspiration one percent, 
of perspiration, ninety nine.

Thomas A. Edison

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -- Thomas Edison