Famous 'failures'
Albert Einstein, considered the greatest genius of the twentieth century, was four years old before he could speak.
Beethoven's music teacher once said of him, 'As a composer, he is hopeless.'
F.W. Woolworth, one of the founders of the modern department store, got a job in a dry goods store when he was 21, but his employer would not allow him to wait on customers
because he 'didn't have enough sense to close a sale'.
J.K Rowling. The first Harry Potter book was turned down by eight agents, and when she finally got a deal, she was warned by the publisher, 'You'll never make any money out of
childre's books, Jo.'
Thomas Edison was told by his teacher that he was too stupid to learn anything and encouraged to to think of a career where he might succeed by virtue of his pleasant
personality.
Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor because he 'lacked imagination and had no good ideas'.
Winston Churchill had to repeat a year of school after he failed the test that would have allowed him to move up a year.
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Considerer the observation by Lester Burnham, played by Kevin spacey: 'Both my wife and daughter think I'm this gigantic loser, and they are right. I have lost something.
I'm not exactly sure what it is, but I know I didn't always feel this sedated. But you know what? It's never too late to get it back.'
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Fail, fail again
At first, you rarely succeed. Hence you need to... fail, fail again.
Consider my mantra:
No failures... no successes
No fast failures... no fast successes
No big failures... no big successes
No big, fast failures... no big, fast successes
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The loyal "We"
Here's another "trick"!
Always us the word "we", in talking with customers, say, "We will take this approach..."
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Thomas Edison, once said:'Genius is one per cent inspiration, and 99 per cent perspiration.' how often do you sweat?
When the author J.K Rowling was asked how she had managed to write the first Harry Potter book as a cash-strapped simgle parent, she said quite seriously that she
didn't do any housework for four years. There's a woman who knowa her priorities!
Colin Farell. He'd point to a day back in 1993 when he failed an audition in Dublin for the boy band, Boyzone. Manager louis Walsh told him he simply couldn't sing. With
hindsight, what a blessing that failure turned out to be! After it, Colin decided to concentrate on acting, headed off to Hollywood where his first role was in Joel Schumacher's
Tigerland, launching an incredible career that currently pays him $7 m per movie, probably more by the time you're reading this. Boyzone as we know, is no more.
As the best-selling self-help author Wayne Dyer says, 'You are what you think about all day long.' If you were busy thinking 'I'am stupid' then that's how you
will have seen yiourself. You were like a heat-seeking missile, looking for what you had been programmed to look for.
Sir John Harvey-Jones: 'To create success, everyone' noses must be pointing in the same direction.'
Winston Churchill defined a succesfull person as 'somebody who goes from one failure to another without any loss of enthusiasm.' Ensure that's you!
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Use a mantra: I can do it, I will find a way, I'm good enough to do this, will all put a
string in your step. These are your holy words, with the power to sharpen your focus and create your results. Soon enough they'll kick and start working for you.
'I wouldn't say I'm the best manager in the business, but I'm certainly in the top one.' Brian Clough
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