Courtesy of Jeremy Gutsche
Learn from Failure
John Grisham was rejected by a dozen publishers before getting a deal. As a startup, Cisco (CSCO) was rejected by 76 venture capitalists before landing money. Thomas Edison, in his words, "discovered 1,000 ways not to make a light bulb" before hitting on a design that worked.
Lesson: Successful ideas first require excessive testing and experimental failure.
