Failure is success if we learn from it.
When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.
I think the foremost quality - there's no success without it - is really loving what you do. If you love it, you do it well, and there's no success if you don't do well what you're working at.
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.