特斯拉总裁马斯克说，他之所以将自己早年的错误公之于众，是希望创业者们知道，当他们在打造新事物的时候，是可以犯错的。

五月美国的毕业季，一位中国留学生在全美商学院创业管理学排名第一的百森商学院 MBA 毕业典礼上演讲，他传递了同样的理念：

失败是创业不可分割的一部分；生命的意义不是为了避免失败的。
郭欣作为中国留学生首登百森商学院毕业典礼演讲台，也是唯一一位站在椅子上发表演讲的嘉宾，他的演讲《只有创业者才有资格失败》比哈佛何江的演讲更契合中国现在的创业大潮。

I may be the only commencement speaker who stands on a chair to deliver a speech. This is what Babson teaches me – Don't think to be the best. Think to be the only.

我可能是毕业典礼上唯一站在凳子上演讲的人——这就是百森（商学院）教给我的：不要（只）想着去做最好，要想着去做唯一。[百森商学院是美国历史上唯一连续23年在创业管理学（Entrepreneurship）领域蝉联第一的商学院。]

It is my great honor to speak at our commencement because the audience has no chance to put up laptops and pretend to listen. Today our campus has the highest net worth in the entire year, because we have gathered so many successful leaders from different areas of the world for our commencement.

我非常荣幸能在毕业典礼上演讲，因为我知道（在座的各位）听众在这个场合没机会打开笔记本电脑，假装听我演讲。（在百森商学院，学生上课可以自由看电脑、手机，非常考验教授的授课水平。）今天是我们校园的资本净值在一年里最高的一天（指与会的企业家很多），因为我们把这么多成功的业界领袖从世界各地聚集到了今天的典礼。

I am not as successful as many of you. Then why did I come on to the stage to speak? What wisdom can I share when I have not yet recognized the same successes? Well, I found one thing that is reason for me to talk. That thing is called failure. Yes, I guess I cannot go wrong in speaking about failure.

我并不像在座各位那么成功。那为什么今天我会站在台上给大家致辞呢？当我还没有像你们一样成功的时候，我能分享一些什么智慧呢？我想来想去，终于找到一个合适的主题，它就是——失败。对，我来谈论失败肯定错不了。

On the first week of our program when we played the game of quilts and puzzles, one of our classmates, Jinji offered a nice definition of failure that I still remember today. He said failure means nothing but NOT-SUCCESSFUL-YET.

我记得在 MBA 课程开始的第一个星期，当我们在玩“被子和拼图”游戏项目的时候，我的一个同学柳锦基给失败下了个很巧妙的定义。他说：失败，只不过是“还没有成功”。

Many business schools teach the case study of successes. At Babson, we learned about life. We learned that failure is an integral part of entrepreneurship. I feel so fortunate that many of my favorite professors have ruthlessly warned us how many twists and turns an entrepreneur needs to experience before he or she succeeds. Babson has a featured methodology called Entrepreneurial Thought and Action. And here is my simplified version of it: as an entrepreneur, I need to try out my ideas, fail fast at an affordable cost, reflect on the failure, make adjustments, try it again, fail again. Try it again and again. Fail again and again, and keep trying until o