If you want to increase your success rate, 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. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all the mistakes you can. Because remember that's where you will find success."

- Thomas J. Watson

Thomas John Watson Sr. was an American businessman. He served as the chairman and CEO of International Business Machines. He oversaw the company's growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956. Watson developed IBM's management style and corporate culture from John Henry Patterson's training at NCR. Wikipedia

Born: February 17, 1874, Campbell, NY

Died: June 19, 1956, New York, NY

Spouse: Jeanette Kittredge (m. 1913)

Children: Thomas J. Watson Jr., Arthur K. Watson