What Is The Key To Success

We’re taught from an early age that success is everything! Win the game, ace the test and be the best at something and you will get grown-ups approval.

Then as we get older, succeeding becomes even more important.

• You got into a top college – Excellent! 
• You won the contract – Great!
• You built a million dollar business – Well done! 

You get the approval of family, friends, colleagues and peers. And you put it down to simply being a success and to all those ‘never give up‘ quotes you may have read.

But Nobody Tells You

There’s something that nobody tells you, and that is that;  

• Failure is positive.
• Failure is not final. 
• Failure is a learning experience
• Don’t Be a Quitter! – Be a Failure Instead…

Because before you (or anyone) can really win big you nearly always have to fail, fail often and sometimes you have to fail big. 

“So what is the key to success? Yes that’s right – Failure!

I’m sure you have heard or read many “never give up quotes” before, (and I will get to some of those soon), but it’s not always so easy to come back from real failure.

You have probably also heard the expression, “Nothing ventured, nothing gained,” Well, sometimes when you ‘venture’, you don’t always ‘gain’. Many times you might lose, and sometimes you actually might lose everything. 

I Know Because I Have

I can personally relate well to this, having made and then lost millions of dollars, several times, in fact. And believe me, when that happens, your self-esteem takes a hit and your confidence takes a nosedive and you ask yourself “Why am I such a failure in life” and those “never give up quotes” – well…!

It Hurts When You Lose

It’s not fun and the next time you venture out (if at all) you tend be a little more cautious, you are inclined to hedge your bets and you don’t play quite as hard-out the next time round.

Why? Because of fear. It’s human nature to be a little scared after you have failed hard.

If you do fail again, – well, you can always tell yourself that you didn’t lose as big this time have because you played a little slower.

But that’s probably why you will fail again because you played with less passion and were fearful, so you just ended up failing again!

It’s Funny

It’s a funny thing, but many people that fail a time or two, often will just give up and quit. Failure hurts too much. It’s humiliating, embarrassing and it sucks. So they make the decision to play it “safe” rather than venture out again into the harsh, cruel world.  

Sadly, this means they don’t try to ‘play‘ anymore, they just sit in their cozy, comfort zone and never try again. To risk failure one more time, would be too mortifying and too crushing for their egos to bear. So they give up on their dreams and goals.

But It’s The Only Way

Yet here’s what those people who give up, don’t know: The ONLY way you can absolutely and permanently fail is to do just that – QUIT. Everything else is just a stepping stone along the road to success.

Too often, people want to know “what is the best online business to have?. They ask  themselves “what can I do and not fail at?“… but that is not the right question.

“What you should ask is; what can I fail at and still succeed“. 

Never Give Up!

Successful People

Successful people know this and that’s why they can shake off the humiliation (as hard as that is) and try again and again because they know that the only true failure is the failure to try.

Yet, society looks down upon those who have failed, lost money, or have been bankrupted. Often calling them ‘losers’ or ‘dreamers’ and they are disparaged because they didn’t quit on their dreams or given up on their goals.

Whereas, it seems that the people who have never tried, and don’t want to try, or have quit early, are called stable, reliable and are seen as normal and respected members of society.

Yet, interestingly enough, the average millionaire…

•         Goes bankrupt 3.5 times.
•         Becomes a millionaire at age 54.
•         Dabbles (perhaps fails) in 17 different ventures – before hitting it big.

What Does This Mean?

The average millionaire goes bankrupt at least once and what do they do? Do they quit? No, they try again and again. Failure for them is only a pothole, a temporary detour, never a journey ending roadblock.

It Means

If YOU have failed and are still breathing and you don’t want to quit. Then you can still succeed and succeed BIGGER than you ever imagined. Regardless of how many times you’ve failed in the past. Failure is not a destination, nor is it the end. It’s only a temporary pit stop along the highway to success.

It’s really about having a positive mindset and failing is a part of the success process. You need to keep failing until you succeed.

Failure is actually a positive thing and is really only training for the main event. Just look at these ‘real life‘ examples of people succeeding – by first failing.  

‘Never Give Up’ Quotes

Thomas Edison’s teachers told him he was “too stupid to learn anything.” Imagine how that could impact a child, hearing from the ‘professionals’ that you’re too stupid to learn.

Most kids would have quit and stopped trying, but not Edison as he went on to register over 1000 patents for things he invented. Inventions that changed the world.

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas Edison

Chicken Soup For The Soul

You have probably heard of the book “Chicken Soup for the Soul” by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen.  What you may not know is that it got rejected 140 times by different publishers.

Even the most persistent of people would have quit after the 10th or 20th rejection, but not these guys they just kept sending out the manuscript until they found a publisher who took a chance.

Today, there are some 65 titles in the series, over 80 million copies printed in 37 languages and it has made them both millionaires many times over.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill failed the sixth grade as a child had a speech impediment (a stutter) and as an adult was beaten in almost every ‘public office’ he ran for. 

Many would have marked him as a ‘failure’. But he never quit and at the age of 62, he became the Prime Minister of Great Britain (twice), leading the country to victory during WWII. He was also awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature and is of only a few people to be made an honorary citizen of the United States. Today he is recognized as one of best-known leaders of the 20^th century and a source of many never give up quotes.

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

Macy’s

R.H. Macy, an American retailer who had a long and undistinguished history of failing businesses. Including his first ever Macy’s store in New York City, before finally building the biggest retail department store in the world.

Honda

In Japan, Soichiro Honda was passed over for an engineering job at Toyota. He could easily have quit because of failure to get a position at Toyota, in Japanese society, brought dishonor to himself and his family. But he didn’t let his failure stop him. Instead, he pursued an even ‘bigger dream‘ and went on to become an automaker and a Toyota competitor. Making motorcycles and cars that today bear the Honda name and an auto industry Billionaire in the process.

Walt Disney

You’ve probably heard that Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor because he “lacked imagination and had no good ideas.” But did you also know he had several failed businesses before the premiere of Snow White or the creation of Disneyland

“The difference in winning and losing is most often…not quitting.” – Walt Disney

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein’s teachers labeled him as “slow” and even “mentally handicapped.” What if Einstein had actually believed those teachers who made these proclamations? For one thing, he never would have won the Nobel Prize in physics.

Henry Ford

Henry Ford‘s first auto company went broke. His second was abandoned because of a fight with his partners and he lost the third, due to declining sales and poor business.

Yet, he went on to become one of the richest and well-known people in the world by revolutionizing the transportation industry and is recognized today, as one of the greatest  20^th Century entrepreneurs. 

“If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.” – Henry Ford

Harry Potter

J.K. Rowling was unemployed and living on welfare while writing her first novel which was rejected by 12 different publishers before finally being picked up for a paltry advance of just 1500 pounds. Today the Harry Potter series has made her the first person ever to become a Billionaire, through writing.

Fashion Queen

Vera Wang failed to make the U.S. Olympic figure-skating team. She also got passed over for the editor-in-chief position at Vogue Magazine. Time to realize she was a failure, right?

Wrong. At age 40 she began designing wedding gowns and today she’s the premier designer in the business and is a self-made Billionaire.

Sam Walton’s his first full-time job was at J.C Penney’s where the personnel director told Sam,

“Walton, I’d fire you if you weren’t such a good salesman. Maybe you’re just not cut out for retail.”

That’s not all, Sam wasn’t good at accounting, he had poor organizational skills, he was hopelessly disorganized and didn’t even understand the terms of his first lease or how to buy a business. He borrowed money and went into debt and overpaid for a failed Ben Franklin store in Newport, Arkansas. 

But He Didn’t Give Up

After 5 long years of grueling work and long hours, he had the most successful Ben Franklin store in the region. But because he didn’t understand the lease, the landlord booted him out and gave the store to his son to run.

Talk About A Failure…

About being thrown out of his first store, Sam said;

“I’ve never been one to dwell on reverses, every moment is a fresh beginning and an opportunity to take what you’ve learned, good and bad, and use it to your advantage“.– Sam Walton

Never Quit

There was nowhere else in town to locate another store. He may have been a failure, but Sam wasn’t a quitter, he drove across four states looking for a new location. He eventually found one in Bentonville, Arkansas and started all over again. 

Keep on Failing Learning

But one thing Sam Walton could do really well was to build a team of people who could handle things better than him and he wasn’t afraid to learn from others.

For example, when he realized the store across the street was doing better than his store, he spent time every day checking them out to learn what they were doing right and what he was doing wrong. 

Don’t Give Up

Sam continually applied what he learned to his own store and then stores. Eventually building the Multi-Billion dollar Wal-Mart Retail Empire with over 11,000 stores in 27 countries, becoming the biggest private employer with over two million employees, and the largest retailer in the world.

You Need to Fail in Order to Succeed

For every failure-to-success example I’ve given here, there are literally hundreds of thousands of others, out there. The only thing stopping you from becoming the next failure-to-success story is YOU.

So what are you waiting for? Hurry up and get your failures out of the way so you can go on to becoming a success yourself. Don’t be afraid of failure, instead, be more afraid of never trying again.

Trying something new will surely mean failing (at least once or twice – but that’s OK). Failure is a stepping stone along the road to great success. It’s not about how many times you fail it’s about whether you fail to try again.

I Have Failed Many Times

I myself, have failed many times, making and then losing millions of dollars. I have been humiliated, embarrassed, crushed and wiped out, oh yes!  Fallen, shunned, snubbed, and ridiculed. 

Me, in 2006 with my 1/2 million dollar Bentley and my Multi-million dollar Estate.

But, I have never given up on the dream of becoming a success.

I have lost beautiful houses, luxury cars, gorgeous wives, my businesses, tons of money, my credit and even friends – but never my mind.

I have failed big time. But more importantly I also failed to quit.  Today I haven’t given up on my dream to make millions and my journey has taken many ‘steps’ along that path towards that goal.

The Past is Not Your Future

You cannot change the past and the past is not your future. Most people who have succeeded, have also failed more than most.

So, the lesson is, don’t be a quitter, be a failure instead and maybe someday your ‘story‘ will be featured right along with Einstein’s, Ford’s, Disney’s and all the other great people who refused to let a little thing like “failure” get in their way.

You can choose to start a new path, another journey, a new direction, everyday and anytime you wish. It just takes courage and commitment.

Only A Few

These examples, are only a few stories from the hundreds that I could have chosen to tell you about and of course there are also stories of people who have been successful from day one, but more often than not their success has not happen overnight, nor without some set backs along the way.

Get Advice From Experts

Take a look at the following video from Grant Cardone about becoming successful.

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