Every Success story is also a story of great failures

Every Success story is also a story of great failures

Failure is the highway to success. tom Watson sr.said, if you want to succeed, double your failure rate" if you study history, you will find that all stories of success are also stories of great failures. but people don't see the failures. they only see one side of the picture and they say that person got lucky: he must have been at the right place at the right time. Let me share someone's life history with you. This was a man who failed in business at the age of 21; was defeated in a legislative race at age22; failed again in business at age 24;

 overcame the death of his sweetheart at age 26; has a nervous

the breakdown at age 27; lost a congressional race at age 34; lost a senatorial race at age 45; failed in an effort to become vice-president at age 47; lost a senatorial race at age 49; and was elected president of the United States at age 52. 

This man was Abraham Lincoln. Would you call him a failure? He could have quit. But to Lincoln, defeat was a detour and not a dead end. In 1913, LeeDeForest, the inventor of the triodes tube, was charged by the district attorney for using fraudulent means to mislead the public into buying stocks of his company by claiming that he could transmit the

human voice acros_s the Atlantic. He was publicly humiliated. Can you imagine where we would be Without his invention?

Lee Iacocca was fired by Henry Ford II at the age of 54.

4. Young Beethoven was told that he had no talent for music, but he gave some of the best music in the world. Setbacks are inevitable in life. A setback can act as a driving force and also teach us humility. In grief, you will find courage and faith to overcome the setback.

 We need to learn to become victors, not victims. Fear and doubt short-circuit the mind. Ask yourself after every setback: What did I learn from this experience? Only then you will be able to tum a stumbling block into a stepping stone. The motivation to succeed comes from the bu1ningdesireto achieve a purpose. Napoleon Hill wrote, ''Whatever the 111ind of man can conceive and believe the mind can achieve.' A young man asked Socrates the secret to success. Socrates told the young man to meet him near the river the next mon1ing.Every Success story is also a story of great failures

 They met. Socrates asked the young man to walk with · towards the river. When the water got up to their neck, Socrates took A New York  Times ed .to14 I al on December 10, 1903, questioned the wisdom of tl1e Wrigl t Brothers who were try ing to invent the machine, heavier than air, that would fly. One week later, at Kitty awk, the Wright Brothers took their fa more s flight. the young man by surprise and ducked  ·....., Socrates was strong and kept there until theColonel Sanders, at age 65, with a beat-up car and a$100 cheques from social security,

 realized he had to do some He remembered his mother's recipe and went out selling. How many doors·did he have to knock on before he got his first order? It is estimated that he had knocked_ on more than as a young cartoonist, Walt Disney faced many rejections: from newspaper editors, who said he had no talent. One day a minister at a church hired hi1n to df aw s9tne cartoon. Disney was working out of a small mouse infested shed near the church

 Mer seeing the small mouse, he was inspired. That was the start of ·Miekey Morise. Successful people don't do great things; they only do small things in a great way.  One day a partially deaf four-year-old kid crunehome with a note in his pocket from his teacher, ''Your To1runy is too stupid to lea1·n, get. out of the school.'' His mother read the note and answered, 

Every Success story is also a story of great failures

''My Tonnnyis not stupid to lear·n, I will teach only three months of formal schooling and he was partially deaf.himmyself.•, And that Tonu11y grew up to be the great Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison had Henry Ford forgot to put a thousand doors before he got his first order. How many of us quit after the): he tries, ten tries, a hundred tries, and then we say we tried as hard as we could?