You'll be pleasantly surprised when you reach them. When you fail, you are testing the boundaries of your opportunity. Laboratory rats can find their way through a maze by trying and failing and trying and failing yet they are learning all the way. Businesses that never have failures or setbacks are probably leaving money on the table. They are not testing the boundaries or making the optimum decisions.
Success tends to make organizations complacent.
The reason Cincinnati is not viewed as one of the great gazelle cities like Cleveland or Charlotte is simple. Things are pretty good in Cincinnati but they weren't in Charlotte or Cleveland. They had a major crisis on their hands if they didn't shape up, they would shut down. I'm not suggesting we set our river on fire, but we need to light a fire under ourselves and compete with the gazelles. Remembering our recent history in the dot com world look what happened to those with too much success and money.