Failure Before Success
Awesome post by Tom Pestridge on how failure has to come before success. This image nails it — Colonel Sanders got rejected over 1,000 times before someone said yes to his now-famous KFC recipe.
Here is what he said:
Failure. Failure. Failure. Failure. Failure. Failure. Failure. Failure. Failure. Failure. Failure. Failure. Failure. Failure. Failure. Failure. Failure. SUCCESS.
This is what success often looks like.
→ Colonel Sanders’ KFC recipe was rejected 1,009 times before he found a restaurant that would sell it.
→ MrBeast uploaded 455 videos before going viral.
→ 12 publishers turned down J.K. Rowling before being accepted.
→ WD-40 was perfected on the 40th attempt.
→ Sylvester Stallone was rejected more than 1,500 times before getting Rocky made.
→ Thomas Edison failed 10,000 times before inventing the lightbulb.
→ James Dyson created 5,127 prototypes before developing the first bagless vacuum.
→ James Cameron was rejected over 100 times while trying to get The Terminator made.
→ Vincent Van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.
→ Jay-Z was rejected by every major label before launching his own.
It’s easy to think nothing is working… until it does.
But every success story has a trail of failures behind it.
What really matters is how you handle those failures.
Failure = feedback.
Fail. Learn. Try again. Succeed.
