Failure
That is a word that most people dread.

Everyone wants to be a success. We want to be liked and admired.

But that dreaded "F" word always pops up. Failure.

This experience is strong enough to make you want to quit and start a new life.

Success takes time and effort. Yes,many times you will fail before you are succesful.

Ask just about anybody who has become succesful if they have ever failed at any aspect of their journey.Chances are you will get quite a few stories of missteps and blunders.

The difference between long-term success and failure is the reaction to it.

People who,as charlie sheen says are "Winners overcome the obstacles".

Yes,failure happens,live with it, learn from it.

There is a need to change the view on failure it is not something that needs to be avoided. It is a chance to learn something that does not work!
It is not always reaching the destination that defines the man(or woman),but the journey that is taken to get there. The biggest successes have gone through the biggest failures.

If you are struggling in your business or even if you're looking for small business opportunities do not be afraid to try things that are "new" "different" and perhaps even fly in the face of conventional wisdom. The worst thing that can happen is failure which is just a chance to learn and grow.

To illustrate the point, here is a list of 11 people who were all hugely succesfull in their fields. All of them failed. Not only did these people fail,but they failed on a massive scale. Yet history still views these successful people who failed as great success stories because they bounced back and succeded in the end.

1| Thomas Edison:
Chances are you have heard of Edison in relation to overcoming failure before. He was a master of "trail and error"
When asked about the many thousands of failures he had when trying to create the light-bulb he famously said,"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. But there is even more to it than that. As a child he was thought to be dumb and told that he would never be a success by many of his teachers,because his mind would often wander in class.
Good thing for us that the great inventor in history did not listen. ...............|thank God i made the front page and thanks to my wonderfull ogunniran family.

2| Elvis Presley: You do not need to be a Elvis fan to acknowledge the impact he has had on popular music. They don't dub somebody the "king" of a form of music without a great amount of success.
But even for Elvis success came after failure. This first recordings went nowhere. After that he tried to join a vocal quartet and was told he, "Couldn't Sing". Finally,right before he became popular,he was told,"You ain't going nowhere, son. You ought to go back to driving a truck".

3| Micheal Jordan: it is hard to imagine it, but the jordan, he is arguably the greatest basketball player ever,was once cut from his high school team.
As jordan puts it, "I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games on 26 occassions. I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed.
I have failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

4| Vicent Van Gogh: Van Gogh paintings these days sell for incredible amounts of money. Four of his paintings have sold for more than 100 million dollars.
Yet Van Gogh is a cautionary tale. In his life he was a failure.
He slowly began to build a reputation while he was alive, but he also had a ton of critics. He burned and destroyed many of his paintings out of frustration and was known to only sell ONE PAINTING.
He did not work to overcome his failure and killed himself.Soon after his death his work began to garner intense critical and financial success.

5| Stephen King: King was working as a teacher in rural Maine when he wrote his first novel,"Carrie". King had some small success selling short stories previously, but nothing that anyone could create a "career" on. King Submitted "Carrie" 30 times. King was rejected 30 times. Before his 31st attemp he threw the manuscript out. His wife rescued it from the round file and asked to try one more time. The rest ..... Is history.

6| Fred Astaire: During his first screen test an RKO executive noted that Aistaire, "Can't Sing Can't act. Balding. Can dance a little. "Despite this initial rejection, Astaire perserved and ended up becoming one of the top actors, singers and dancers of his generation.

7| Abraham Lincoln: If lincoln quit when the going got tough, the world might be a very different place. As a young man licoln entered military service in the Black Hawk war as a captain. Yet left as a private. With every little formal education, licoln taught himself and become a lawyer and congressman.
His real rise to "national" prominence could also be viewed as a "failure". In 1858 licoln tried for a seat in the Illinois Senate. This led to a series of hotly contested debates. (the lincoln-Douglas debates). Licoln lost the senate election, but really impressed a lot of the 'right' people, even with his loss. Two years later he ran for president and won. Thankfully he did not let lack of formal education, initial failure or set backs rattle him.

8| Albert Einstein: if asked to name a genius,most people would come up with the name Albert Einstein. Yet even for Einstein genius did not come easy. He had Speech difficulties as a child and was once even thought to be Mentally handicapped.
As a teen he rebelled against his schools reliance on rote learning and failed. He tried to test into Zurich polytechnic, but failed again ( although he did very well in the math and physics section.....as you might expect)
Einstein buckled down,received the requisite training and applied to zurich polythechnic again, and of course was accepted.
A few years later he had a PHD and was recognized as a leading theorist. A few years after that he had a Nobel prize for physics and began to be recognized as the genius of our era.

9| JK Rowling: Rowling is the perfect example that success can come to anyone at any time, she is now doing the back stroke through a pool of Harry potter money, but that was not always the case. Before Harry potter became a success she was a divorced mother, living on welfare, going to school and trying to write a novel in her spare time.
Rowling herself said she was the biggest failure. I knew and credits a lot of her success to her failure
At a Havard commencement speech Rowling had this to say. "Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to funishing the only work that mattared to me. Had I really succeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to suceed in the one area where I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored,and I had an old typewriter, and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life''.

10| Oprah Winfrey: At age of 22, the now- TV mogul was fired from her job as a television reporter because she was "unfit for tv".
Winfrey was terminated from her post as co-anchor of the 6 o'clock weekday news on Baltimore's WJZ-TV after the show received low ratings Winfrey has called it the "first and worst failure of her TV career"
Winfrey was then denoted to morning TV, Where she found her voice and met fellow newbie Gayle King, who would one day become her producer and editor of O, the oprah Magazine.
Seven years later, winfrey moved to chicago, where her self titled talk show went on to dominate daytime TV for 25 years, and Ultimately head her own channel OWN.

11| Steve Jobs: Steve Jobs was a college drop out, a fired tech executive and an unsuccessful businessman.
At 30-years-old he was left devastated after being unceremoniously removed from the company he founded.
In a 2005 Commencement speech and Stanford University, Jobs explained, 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. The heaviness of being successfull was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life".
After his return to Apple, Jobs created several iconic products, including the iPod , iPhone and iPad which have changed the face of consumer technology forever.
And Jobs became one of the richest in the world.

Don't doubt yourself.
Obstacles are out there. They are meant to be overcomed.
No adventure worth undertaking is easy. Every one who achieves success faces obstacles.
What makes (or breaks) a person is how they react to the obstacles and road blocks in their life and what they do (or do not do) to overcome these setbacks.
Take a hint from the successful people who have failed and do not let these obstacles hold you back. Remeber!! 'if you have never failed then you have never lived'.
Now let me know about YOUR missteps and failures. What have you learned?
Perhaps some historic figure has inspired you that way that the successful people who have failed above have inspired me.
Please share your toughts in the comments below.
Take Action. Get Results. source: http://www.stevescottsite.com/successful-people-who-have-failed
http://addicted2success.com/success-advice/15-rich-famous-people-who-were-fired-before-they-became-successful/ http://willhardison.com/blog/never-ever-give-up-20-successful-people-who-first-failed/
http://www.businessinsider.com/15-people-who-failed-before-becoming-famous-2012-10?op=1[/quote]

So inspiring

Same thots..really inspirational

Stephen King, my mentor

Y my name no dey dia
Why will i buy a painting for over 1 billion naira.... na wah oo

Benjamin Franklin once said: “The man who does things makes many mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all - doing nothing.”

Many of the world’s wealthiest people have failed in business, some more than once. What sets them apart from other ‘failures’ is their ability to learn from their experiences and put failure behind them. We should never be afraid to fail; only to fail to learn from our failures.
Failure can be a great teacher – it teaches us what not to do.
Our lives are filled with goal-setting and working to achieve those goals, and when we do something that doesn’t get us where we want to be we can choose to either give up or to try something else. And at that point we already know one approach that won’t work.

Failure is a motivator. Nobody likes to fail and it can make us even more determined to find success.

Failure is never seen as the end result of a drive toward a goal; it’s only a setback.

This ability to fall and rise again builds character in a person...Culled from Cornerstone Business solution.

Lilimax: Benjamin Franklin once said: “The man who does things makes many mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all - doing nothing.”

Many of the world’s wealthiest people have failed in business, some more than once. What sets them apart from other ‘failures’ is their ability to learn from their experiences and put failure behind them. We should never be afraid to fail; only to fail to learn from our failures.
Failure can be a great teacher – it teaches us what not to do.
Our lives are filled with goal-setting and working to achieve those goals, and when we do something that doesn’t get us where we want to be we can choose to either give up or to try something else. And at that point we already know one approach that won’t work.

Failure is a motivator. Nobody likes to fail and it can make us even more determined to find success.

Failure is never seen as the end result of a drive toward a goal; it’s only a setback.

This ability to fall and rise again builds character in a person...Culled from Cornerstone Business solution.

inspiring.

Dubby6: Which kind misleading topic b dis...
Y my name no dey dia
Why will i buy a painting for over 1 billion naira.... na wah oo

i guess you dont understand the power of success.

Failure is your friend

It's really inspiring!!! Just learnt few things I never knew.

Without failure, you can't appreciate success

will a good thread like this ever make front page

i hope am wrong

Just to add a few words.....
The journey to success or failure begins with the Hearth. In as much as we presume Failure as "inevitable", yet, it can be avoided through out a life time.....
It's all in how powerful your mindset is.....
-What you Think is Who you are

#Ma_opinion

Never QUIT and always believe in yourself no matter what.

Lilimax: Benjamin Franklin once said: “The man who does things makes many mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all - doing nothing.”

Many of the world’s wealthiest people have failed in business, some more than once. What sets them apart from other ‘failures’ is their ability to learn from their experiences and put failure behind them. We should never be afraid to fail; only to fail to learn from our failures.
Failure can be a great teacher – it teaches us what not to do.
Our lives are filled with goal-setting and working to achieve those goals, and when we do something that doesn’t get us where we want to be we can choose to either give up or to try something else. And at that point we already know one approach that won’t work.

Failure is a motivator. Nobody likes to fail and it can make us even more determined to find success.

Failure is never seen as the end result of a drive toward a goal; it’s only a setback.

This ability to fall and rise again builds character in a person...Culled from Cornerstone Business solution.

Likes

Preserved.

Not taking a risk at all is a risk..the difference between the rich,and the poor is that,the poor sees risk.the rich see opportunity.

Hmm... Educative