"Someone else's failure will not make you successful", what do you think?

Someone's else failure can also be taken as a collective opportunity for learning and developing and way towards contribution to everyone's success. 

I agree. There are people using people to get an edge over another. There are also some blaming another for the mistakes they do. That's very irresponsible and wont lead you anywhere. A good team should work harmoniously, they should support each other.

This is not true when you have the will to learn and the qualifications to solve. 

Building a team is to prevent the failure of a member of the Team if the member is prudent in his approach.  Support, Guide, Assist and Help are the qualities required in all team members when one member of the team could not follow them genuine predictable reasons.  Here the member should also co-operate and should not deviate from the main stream in such a way the The team are made helpless.

Some bad stylish managers exploit the team failors for justyfing their utilities in a one common organization.

To comfort their position they select members team with mediocre capabilities and skills.

Debatable depending which way you look it.

Someone else's failure will give you a head start on identifying the defects, issues, obstacles and issues to avoid in your current situation basically a guide on what not to do. Learning from other's mistakes and failures help you improve it's an experience which increases your knowledge on how to avoid failing.

 

I wouldn't suggest using this statement within my team simply because it may demotivate them and knock their confidence in using someone else's failure as an experience or a learning curve but instead believe they can't be successful. It can be badly misinterpreted.

But you can learn from his experience that how to overcome your problems. 

sure, u are right. how to avoid office politics??

 

Indeed True. Without knowing this reality many people will behind this concept rather trying to do their things level best up to their potentiality and waste their energy.

Both can fail.