OPENING: BOOK 18: MANDATORY FAILURE
Maxim 70: Failure is not an option.
It is mandatory.
The option is whether or not to let
failure be the last thing you do.
NARRATOR: Maxim 70, from Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries, reads as follows:
"Failure is not an option. It is mandatory. The option is whether or not to let failure be the last thing you do."
NARRATOR: Like the other sixty-nine maxims, regardless of any wisdom it may or may not contain, Maxim Seventy is not universally applicable.
Not all failures are necessarily mandatory.
And some failures preclude the option to go on to do other things...