Success, Failure, and the Need to Keep Trying

Filed in archive Entrepreneurship by Greg Cruey on August 26, 2009

Scott M. Messinger published a little chunk of perspective not long ago that I thought I would pass along...

The quote - "I have not failed. Ive found 10,000 ways that wont work" - To me addresses the trials and tribulations of a small business owner or entrepreneur. Failure in start ups happens. It can happen again and again, and will happen. Failure doesn't get dealt with as a defeat, rather is viewed as a setback. Many failures turn into policy and/or procedure to avoid similar future problems. If you buy a business you can have a pretty good feel on what to expect assuming you've performed adequate due diligence.

As a teacher I end up telling kids a lot that you can't learn if you don't try, and you learn a great deal from trying and failing. Critical thinking has become a big emphasis in education. You have to consider why something doesn't work, think about how it could be don't differently.

It's no different in business...

How do you make a light bulb? Try a bunch of times...

How do you make a light bulb? Try a bunch of times...

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Response from: xrisma (09/08/09 7:32pm)

Success and Failure is different. The difference between them is far. But that difference is not a long way far. Once you have failed, you can broke your future. It ;s a hardest way to wake after broke from fail. So you must not give up for one failure. You wake up from your first failure, you will receive your confidence to face up your destination, you/ll be the great man. so Check out for everything in your failure, doing to fix the problems, and gain your success back.

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