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Despite being plastered across motivational posters worldwide, this quote has no verified connection to Einstein. Quote Investigator found the first attribution to Einstein only in 1995 — four decades after his death — in a Syracuse newspaper profile. The sentiment itself is far older: versions of "a person who never makes mistakes never tries anything new" appear in print as early as 1832, and in Samuel Smiles' influential 1859 self-help book. The Einstein attribution likely emerged from the same pattern that attaches popular wisdom to famous names to lend it authority.