I came across this today and I decided
to post it as today motivational moment
for KZB reader to read and
meditate on.
Read it below....
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 age 22; failed
again in business at age 24;
overcame the death of his
sweetheart at age 26; had a
nervous 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, Lee De Forest, 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
across the Atlantic. He was
publicly humiliated. Can you
imagine where we would be
without his invention?
A New York Times editorial on
December 10, 1903, questioned
the wisdom of the Wright
Brothers who were trying to
invent a machine, heavier than
air that would fly. One week
later, at Kitty Hawk, the Wright
Brothers took their famous
flight.
Colonel Sanders, at age 65, with
a beat-up car and a $100 check
from Social Security, realized he
had to do something. 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 a thousand doors
before he got his first order.
How many of us quit after three
tries, ten tries, a hundred tries,
and then we say we tried as
hard as we could?
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 him
to draw some cartoons. Disney
was working out of a small
mouse infested shed near the
church. After seeing a small
mouse, he was inspired. That
was the start of Mickey Mouse.
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 came home with a
note in his pocket from his
teacher, "Your Tommy is too
stupid to learn, get him out of
the school." His mother read the
note and answered, "My Tommy
is not stupid to learn, I will teach
him myself." And that Tommy
grew up to be the great Thomas
Edison. Thomas Edison had only
three months of formal schooling
and he was partially deaf.
Henry Ford forgot to put the
reverse gear in the first car he
made.
Do you consider these people
failures? They succeeded in spite
of problems, not in the absence of
them. But to the outside world, it
appears as though they just got
lucky.
All success stories are stories of
great failures. The only
difference is that every time they
failed, they bounced back. This
is called failing forward, rather
than backward. You learn and
move forward. Learn from your
failure and keep moving.
Below are more examples of the
failures of successful people:
1. Thomas Edison failed
approximately 10,000 times
while he was working on the
light bulb.
2. Henry Ford was broke at the
age of 40.
3. 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 to
the world.
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