If a man wants to succeed in his work, that is, to achieve the anticipated results, he must bring his ideas into correspondence with the laws of the objective external world; if they do not correspond, he will fail in his practice. After he fails, he draws his lessons, corrects his ideas to make them correspond to the laws of the external world, and can thus turn failure into success
 Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (1964). copy citation

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Author Mao Zedong
Source Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
Topic success failure
Date 1964
Language English
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Note Translated by Foreign Language Press, Peking
Weblink https://archive.org/details/QuotationsFromChairmanMaoTse-tung