One area where I think we are especially distinctive is failure. I believe we are the best place in the world to fail (we have plenty of practice!), and failure and invention are inseparable twins. To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it's going to work, it's not an experiment. Most large organizations embrace the idea of invention but are not willing to suffer the string of failed experiments necessary to get there.

I failed my way to success.

A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.

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

No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!

I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.