Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated everyday.
- Jim Rohn
How not to become a failure… June 25, 2007
If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be like.
- Brian Tracy
Great Men and their failures… March 6, 2007
- Beethoven’s music teacher once told him that as a composer, he was hopeless.
- Winston Churchill failed in the 6th grade.
- John Creasy, the English novelist who wrote 564 books, was rejected 753 times before he became established.
- Charles Darwin’s father told him he would amount to nothing and would be a disgrace to himself and his family.
- Walt Disney was fired by the editor of a newspaper because he, Disney, had “no good ideas”.
- When Thomas Edison was a boy his teacher told him he was too stupid to learn anything.
- Einstein was four-years-old before he spoke. He spoke haltingly until nine years of age. He was advised to drop out of High School. And his teachers told him he would never amount to much.
- Henry Ford’s first two automobile businesses failed.
- Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard’s early failed products included a lettuce-picking machine and an electric weight-loss machine.
- Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team.
- Ray Krok failed as a real estate salesperson before discovering the McDonald’s idea.
- Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka sold only 100 of an automatic rice cooker which burned the rice. Later, they built a cheap tape recorder for Japanese schools. This was the foundation of Sony Corp.
- Isaac Newton failed at running the family farm and did poorly in school.
- Steven Spielberg dropped out of high school in his sophomore year. He was persuaded to come back and placed in a learning disabled class. He lasted a month.
- The artist Whistler failed in chemistry, failed at West Point and failed at engineering before turning his hand to art.
Failures are made only by those… February 22, 2007
Failures are made only by those who fail to dare, not by those who dare to fail.
- Lester B. Pearson,
Failure…What is it… February 19, 2007
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker.
Failure is delay, not defeat.
It is a temporary detour, not a dead end.
Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
- Denis Waitley
Are you content with your failure… February 16, 2007
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln : American statesman (16th President: 1861-65)
What is Failure… February 16, 2007
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
- Henry Ford (1863-1947) – American Industrialist
What are the Two kinds of failures… February 12, 2007
There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence Peter
