So, starting a new company can be interesting as a few of us old warhorses necessarily are spending a lot more time in the lab than we have in a while.
Today, our founder was grousing about an experiment that had gone awry. It wasn’t a big deal, probably cost him a day or two, tops.
These things happen from time to time, so I looked up from my own experiment and asked him, “Why so annoyed? Aren’t you doing science?”
He replied, “I expect everything to work the first time, every time.”
“Where you been working?” I snorted.
“Management!” he replied.
Stevil 
HaHaHaaaaaaaaaaa! Oh brother….
LOL…..sure would be nice if everything worked the first time. I don't see that happening in management either :-)
Snerk. If we knew the answers going in, it would be philosophy, not science.John
Haha. He must've been some manager!
I just snorted out loud!
LOL! I think it is great that you had the stones to do this. Yes, management. Aye.
Haaaa! Perfect, someone is going to need patience pills (someone, meaning everyone).
HA! That's awesome.
I find that I spend a lot of time on autopilot, and on the rare occasion that something goes wrong I'm always surprised, because I tend to trust my intuition implicitly.
Perhaps you should point out to him that some of the most interesting discoveries in chemistry started out life as experiments gone awry.
Wow – I think I've worked for that guy before….