[gizajob]

"Success has a thousand parents, failure is an orphan"

(Quoted from Stephen Spielberg but I don't know where he got it from)

[bookofjoe]

"This is an unfair thing about war: victory is claimed by all, failure to one alone." —Tacitus, 56-120 CE

[belter]

Out of an Italian proverb... "La vittoria ha cento padri ma la sconfitta è orfana."

Normally attributed to Galeazzo Ciano, son-in-law of Benito Mussolini.

[rchaud]

"If they win, I deserve all the credit. If they lose, I should not take any of the blame" - P45, this past week