by your grandfather's grandfather's grandfather.
Likely an untraceable axiom with very slight variations, Mussolini's son-in-law Count Ciano used in his WWII diaries. John F. Kennedy made it memorable in a speech.
The attributin is correct, but the words are slightly different. Originally success was victory and failure was defeat. JFK accepted the blame for the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion. He used the saying in its original form.
Success has many fathers while failure is an orphan
Success is claimed by many but failure is denied by everyone
It is not a question to be answered but a common expression describing ownership of success and failure. It means many people are willing to take the credit for a success action while none take the credit if an action turns to failure.
Galeazzo Ciano. - Son in law of Benito Mussolini.
It means that wherever there is a successful event or person, there are many people who want to take credit for it while defeat, on the other hand, is an orphan and no one wants to take credit for it.
two; success or failure
success of capital cultures can be measured by how many times people do things wrong but in the end they do them right
There are many candidates and they all have their advocates. Among the leading contenders for the (practically meaningless) title, Charles Babbage, Konrad Zuse, John Atanasoff and John von Neumann. "Success has many fathers; failure is an orphan." Alan Turing is generally recognized as "the father of computer science", which some people confuse with "the father of modern computers". Computer science is to computers as astronomy is to telescopes. Alan Turing. John von Neumann Charles Babbage is the father of modern day computers. Charles Babbage
It refers to aproject with many aspects (i.e.influential factors in project's success or failure)
Many early submarines were failures. However, as many countries in the world now own and even build submarines, we could reasonably call them a success.
Im reminded of some quites ..."Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.""Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.""Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.""Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on ones ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.""I do not believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.""Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.""Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure."Stack that against Lincoln and you'll see there were no "major failures" ...REFER TO LINK @ BOTTOM OF PAGE FOR ''LINCOLN'S FAILURES' ...
"Orphan at My Door" by Jean Little has 176 pages.