New Delhi, April 9 -- "Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once."

Mint has today taken a quote from the CEO of the Dropbox, Drew Houston. It may mean that success does not require repeated perfection, but just one breakthrough is enough.

You can fail many times, make mistakes, or face setbacks, but none of that ultimately matters if you eventually get one thing right that works. That single success can outweigh all the previous failures.

Basically, persistence matters more than a flawless track record. The quote "Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once" also means that failure is not the end, sometimes it leads to success.

In fields like entrepreneurship, investing, or science, failure is not just co...