2 million people would die from food poisoning each year. The product failed miserably, and Burke expected that he would be fired. When he was called in to see the chairman of the board, however, he met a surprising reception. Well I just want to congratulate you. If you are making mistakes, that means you are taking risks, and we won't grow unless you take risks.
Some mistakes seem to stand forever.
The phrase was attributed to her by those in opposition to Louis XVI, but had actually been used by other prominent figures long before. Charles Lindbergh was not the first person to fly nonstop across the Atlantic. He was the 92nd, although he was the first to do it alone. The Emperor Nero did not fiddle while Rome burned. Fiddles had not been invented, and at the time of the fire he was 35 miles away.