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Without Fail

2/6/2016

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​Failing doesn’t always mean you’re out of the game. Sometimes you have to look at the bright side of failure and learn from it. Let’s take a look at some famous failures and how these people, and the work they produced, achieved astounding successes.
Failure
Source: OnlineMBAToday.com
90%  Percentage of business startups that fail.
42%  The percentage of those startups that fail because of a lack of a market for their product.
36.4% The percentage of Construction companies have the lowest 5-year survival rate

Famous Fails

Absolutely no one would ever call these famous figures “failures.” But all of them are no strangers to disappointment.

J.K. Rowling
“I had failed on an epic scale. An exceptionally short-lived marriage had imploded, and I was jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless.”

Before becoming the best-selling author of the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling was seriously down on her luck. But she definitely turned it around, with a now $15 million brand.

$910 million   Estimated net worth of J.K. Rowling 

Steve Jobs
“I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me.”

Sometimes failures are a blessing in disguise, as the late CEO of Apple discovered. He went on to build an empire that led him back to his own tech start-up and made him a billionaire.

4,000   Number of employees that work for Apple

Bill Gates
“It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”

Gates often felt like a failure for dropping out of Harvard, but even more so when his first startup, Traf-O-Data, went under. But he went on to become the billionaire owner of Microsoft and an extremely charitable philanthropist.

31  Age of Gates when he started Microsoft, becoming the world’s youngest self-made billionaire at the time 

Michael Jordan
“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

In his younger years, Jordan was overlooked by some basketball coaches because he didn’t reach the minimum height standard. Now, his championship record and Nike apparel speak for themselves.

$1 billion  Michael Jordan’s estimated net worth 

Albert Einstein
“Success is failure in progress.”

Though known as one of the most brilliant minds in history, Einstein was once expelled from school and subsequently refused entrance to the Zurich Polytechnic School.

1921  Year that Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in theoretical physics 

Abraham Lincoln
“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”

After failing in business and suffering a nervous breakdown, Lincoln went on to become one of the most influential presidents of the United States.

5  Number of elections Lincoln lost before being elected president in 1861

​Turning Failure Into Success

​Here are some simple steps that will help you look at failure a little differently.
  1. Investigate what went wrong. Don’t generalize or place blame. Just objectively find where it all went wrong.
  2. Learn from failure. Don’t fall into the trap of repeating history. Learn from your failure and vow never to make that mistake again.
  3. Realize you’ve nothing left to fear. Once you’ve failed, you’ll know that there is nothing left to be afraid of. You’ve hit bottom, so now all you can do is head upward.
  4. Recognize accountability. If you were the reason you failed, accept responsibility. But don’t beat yourself up about it — just move on.
  5. Find innovation. In failure, there is room for creativity. Sometimes trying new things leads to failure, but you are more apt to take risks because of it.
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