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If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate." Thomas Watson, Sr. Many times we think that the hero's we have come to admire were gifted or were given special privileges or... they were lucky. what you intend. If you have not succeeded and you quit... you have exactly what you intend. If you press on, and keep on pressing on until the finish line... you will have what you intend! Scott Cook: Intuit Chairman, 2005, #320 on the Forbes 400 Malcom Gladwell in his book Outliers proves that most success stories from the Beetles to Bill Gates invested over 10,000 hours in their trade BEFORE they became a success and many had hardships and setbacks that gave them an "edge." Read some select short stories of mine below:
Walt Disney 
The man who gave children and adults the ability to dream and seek a happier place had many, many misfortunes. He persisted doggedly in his quests.
The movie Mary Poppins for example, was borne from a script authored by Pamela Lyndon Travers in 1934. It took Walt Disney 20 years to convince a strong-willed, proprietary, and altogether perfectionist Travers to put her signature on the dotted line, which cost Disney 5% of the Mary Poppins gross (adjusted for inflation it ranks as No.23 on the list of all-time box-office earners). Source: Showbill, Mary Poppins the New Musical, August 2009 His first company was Iwerks & Disney, then he started Laugh-O-Grams Films. At 21 files bankruptcy. Other companies follow named Walt Disney Cartoons, Disney Brothers Studio, Walt Disney Studio and Disney Productions. Politics, betrayal and more losses mount. In 1925, Lillian and Walt forgo getting a reliable car so they can get married. Employees abandon him, snatched by Universal. At 28 he needs to sell his car for money but he will not relinquish Mickey. At 31he has a nervous breakdown. Disney presses on. Pinochio, Bambi and Fantasia are considered movie flops. Disney owes banks $5,000,000 in 1939. Movies selling in Europe are making money but then World War II breaks out destroying the market. Hollywood blames Walt for the studio’s misfortunes and said it was because he had “gone highbrow” trying to foist classical music, a wooden puppet, and a “dumb deer” on an unwilling public. Bankruptcy looms again and workers strike in the middle of Dumbo. Walt Disney Production goes public issuing 755,000 shares of stock. Studio is saved. When World War II broke, the US Army took over his Buena Vista Studio on 12/7/41 throwing out the cameras and audio equipment. He abandons Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland and Wind in the Willows. Walt Disney Studio finished World War II badly in the red. In 1946 he borrows money from the bank and makes Song of the South, which won the Oscar for best movie song “Zip-a-dee-doo-dah.” A little boy asks Walt at a movie show one day what he does and Walt replies… “sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody. I guess that’s the job that I do.” He embarks on Disneyland. Brother doesn’t see the big picture as he is convinced it won’t work. Disney cashes in all of his assets including life insurance to buy the land, hire the architects and planners, etc. for Disneyland. Disney Productions still owes a lot of money to the banks. The Board and banks all turn Disney down multiple times. In 1954, in his middle age, he gets the money he needs to begin construction of Disneyland. You know the rest of the story. Walt Disney: Film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer. Other true stories are found within Wisher, Washer, Wishy-Washy. It is a practical workbook to identify power words, power actions and power attitudes. |
"If you risk nothing, then you risk everything." Geena Davis: Actress, Film Producer, Writer, Model, Olympic Archery team "Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." Henry Ford: Industrialist with 161 patents "My hope still is to leave this world a bit better than when I got here" Jim Henson: Muppet Show and Sesame Street Creator. Film Director and TV Producer "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." Albert Einstein: Physicist and Pacifist "Men are born to succeed, not to fail." Henry David Thoreau "Success is moving from one failure to another without losing enthusiasm!" Winston Churchill "Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." Henry Ford "My interest in science was always essentially limited to the study of principles... That I have published so little is due to this same circumstance, as the great need to grasp principles has caused me to spend most of my time on fruitless pursuits." Albert Einstein: Physicist and Pacifist "Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses." George Washington Carver "The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote into a top level job a man who was not making mistakes…otherwise he is sure to be mediocre." Peter Drucker "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone." Bill Cosby "I have now been promoted to being an evil monster in Germany, and all of my money has been taken away. But I console myself with the thought that it would have soon been spent, anyway." Albert Einstein: Physicist and Pacifist "A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him." David Brinkley "I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work." Thomas Alva Edison I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me. . .Failure always made me try harder next time. Michael Jordan "One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one's greatest efforts." Albert Einstein: Physicist and Pacifist "The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand." Vince Lombardi "Before success comes in any man's life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do." Napoleon Hill "The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed." Baron de Montesquieu "Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics; I can assure you that mine are still greater." Albert Einstein: Physicist and Pacifist "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." Colin Powell "To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first." William Shakespeare "It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, then fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again." Charles F. Kettering "What depresses me most is the misfortune of my parents who have not had a happy moment for so many years. What further hurts me deeply is that as an adult man, I have to look on without being able to do anything. I am nothing but a burden on my family... It would be better off if I were not alive at all. Only the thought that I have always done what lay in my modest powers, and that I do not permit myself a single pleasure or distraction save for what my studies offer me, sustains me and sometimes protects me from despair." Albert Einstein: Physicist and Pacifist Quoted in Einstein, His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson Postscript: Einstein found it very difficult to obtain any job as an adult. No university would hire him. "I leave no stone unturned and do not give up my sense of humor. God created the donkey and gave him, a thick skin." In 1905 he has a miraculous year publishing several papers while finally working as a patent clerk. Only a few seemed to care. Because his theories were so radical it took 17 years before he was awarded the Nobel Prize. Einstein published more than 300 scientific works and more than 150 non-scientific works. He is often regarded as the father of Modern Physics. Failure Articles
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