Remain in the past and you miss the future. "As
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"As Bezos says, he has made billions off of failures and experimentation; there is no harm in it. If a particular venture is not successful, move on and learn from past mistakes."
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Here are the failures of Elon Musk and how he overcame them:
Rejection from Netscape and Ousted at ZIP2. ...
Paypal has Initially Voted 'the Worst Business Concept of the Year' ...
Tesla Was Failing Hard Before It Became Profitable. ...
Everyone Expected SpaceX to Fail. ...
Elon's Complicated Personal Life and Finances.
"Colonel Harland Sanders was a serial failure - he tried to start several companies and was fired from a number of jobs. He wife even left him at one point because he was always trying to get rich quick!"
"Thomas Edison was expelled from school for being “unteachable.” Fortunately, his mother believed in him and encouraged him to continue his education, even teaching him herself at one point. Unfortunately, things didn’t get any better for Edison when he entered the workforce. He was unceremoniously fired from several of his first jobs because he was not productive enough."
"If you focus on Walt Disney’s failures, it’s amazing that The Walt Disney Company ever reached the level of success it enjoys today. Disney was, at one point, living on dog food and unable to pay his rent. Then, during a contract dispute with Universal Pictures, he lost creative control of his first character, Oswald the Rabbit. Next, MGM rejected his Mickey Mouse character because the studio believed women were afraid of mice."
"While writing the first Harry Potter book, J.K. Rowling was a single mother receiving welfare benefits. However, she overcame her situation by not only completing the book, but also finding someone to publish it. The person who selected her book for publication did so because her daughter fell in love with the story."