This can be understood in many ways, maybe infinite number of ways which makes it impossible to simply assert that the statement is either valid or not...
First of all, there is no universal and agreed on way to measure success. It is an old philosophical question. How do you measure success? By dollars? By happiness and satisfaction? By offspring? By achievement of religious duties? The definition of success changes from a person to another and from a time to another...
Even if you agree on one notion of success, this statement can still mean that either success is impossible without experience which is not true. Many examples in history show you that a lot of people through creativity and not experience got to be successful. Others got successful through their courage and bold moves.
The other way to interpret it might be that success is a natural consequence of experience. That is also not true. Everyone has a lot of experience at least in one thing right? Clearly not everyone is successful...
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