Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business.
Source: In Quotable Business, ed. Louis E. Boone, 1992.
-- Donald Rumsfeld, (Jul 9 1932-____), US pharmaceutical executive, political leader; He was secretary of defense under Nixon and involved in Watergate.