{"id":1759,"date":"2006-05-09T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-09T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2014-08-27T07:49:51","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T12:49:51","slug":"failure-quote-of-day-put-failure-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2006\/05\/failure-quote-of-day-put-failure-to.html","title":{"rendered":"Failure Quote of the Day: Put failure to work for you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a blog called The Scratching Post, a mistake lead to a blogosphere backlash, and the lessons learned ultimately lead to a terrific post, <a href=\"http:\/\/ktcatspost.blogspot.com\/2006\/04\/customer-satisfaction-study-in.html\">A Customer Satisfaction Study in the Blogosphere.<\/a> The author digs up this failure quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In his book, A Touch of Wonder, Arthur Gordon has a superb essay entitled &#8220;The Far Side of Failure.&#8221; He describes his meeting with Thomas Watson of IBM where he was taught that success lies on the far side of failure. &#8220;You&#8217;ve got to put failure to work for you,&#8221; admonishes Mr. Watson.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Later, in the comments, a contributor left this remark:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Arthur Gordon&#8217;s essay, he was told by Tom Watson to &#8220;double his rate of failure&#8221; in order to achieve success.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/smallbizsurvival\/small+biz\" rel=\"tag\">small biz<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/smallbizsurvival\/rural\" rel=\"tag\">rural<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/smallbizsurvival\/entrepreneurship\" rel=\"tag\">entrepreneurship<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a blog called The Scratching Post, a mistake lead to a blogosphere backlash, and the lessons learned ultimately lead to a terrific post, A Customer Satisfaction Study in the Blogosphere. The author digs up this failure quote: In his book, A Touch of Wonder, Arthur Gordon has a superb essay entitled &#8220;The Far Side [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,21],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3610,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions\/3610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}