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All those successes were made possible by failure after failure after failure and the lessons learned from those failures.


There’s a moral here for a Washington culture that fears failure too much. In today’s Washington, large banks aren’t permitted to fail nor are large auto firms. Next up will be too-big-to-fail hospital systems. Steve Jobs is a reminder that failure is a good and necessary thing. And that sometimes the greatest glories are born of catastrophe.