# Why Failure and Experimentation Lead to Success

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2116964489320960419
- Source account: [@FortuneMMXM](https://x.com/FortuneMMXM)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:12
- Published: 2026-11-02
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/K85NxjhmlIZ4/en/why-failure-and-experimentation-lead-to-success

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/K85NxjhmlIZ4/en/why-failure-and-experimentation-lead-to-success) The rule is that nothing works. Nothing works the first time, and sometimes it doesn't work the first five times or ten times.

[0:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/K85NxjhmlIZ4/en/why-failure-and-experimentation-lead-to-success?t=8) A young man went to the founder of IBM, Thomas J. Watson Sr., and asked him, "What can I do to be more successful faster?" And Watson said, "It's simple.

[0:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/K85NxjhmlIZ4/en/why-failure-and-experimentation-lead-to-success?t=19) If you want to increase your success, you must double your rate of failure.

[0:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/K85NxjhmlIZ4/en/why-failure-and-experimentation-lead-to-success?t=24) You must fail more often and faster." He said, "Success lies on the far side of failure."

[0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/K85NxjhmlIZ4/en/why-failure-and-experimentation-lead-to-success?t=30) So you don't sit there and say, "Which of these should I do?"

[0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/K85NxjhmlIZ4/en/why-failure-and-experimentation-lead-to-success?t=33) You pick the one that's the most logical, and you do it.

[0:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/K85NxjhmlIZ4/en/why-failure-and-experimentation-lead-to-success?t=36) And you get feedback, and you learn, and you try it again, over and over.

[0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/K85NxjhmlIZ4/en/why-failure-and-experimentation-lead-to-success?t=39) Almost every person who has been successful financially has spent anywhere from fifteen to twenty years of experimentation before they finally hit the formula that enabled them to earn a lot of money.

[0:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/K85NxjhmlIZ4/en/why-failure-and-experimentation-lead-to-success?t=52) Self-made billionaires in a recent study had been in their field for fifteen years, working an average of ten or twelve hours a day before they found the right combination of circumstances, products, people, money, and market demand that led to them becoming wealthy.

[1:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/K85NxjhmlIZ4/en/why-failure-and-experimentation-lead-to-success?t=66) So be prepared to make a lot of mistakes and try a lot of things.