Tom Watson Sr.

Tom Watson Sr.

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Failure is the highway to success. Tom Watson Sr. said, "If you want to succeed, double your failure rate."  If you study history, you will find that all stories of success are also stories of great  failures. But people don't see the failures. They only see one side of the picture and they say that person got lucky: "He must have been at the right place at the right time." Let me share someone's life history with you. This was a man who failed in business at the age of 21 ; was defeated in a legislative race at age 22; failed again in business at age 24; overcame the death of his sweetheart at age 26; had a nervous breakdown at age 27; lost a congressional race at age 34; lost a senatorial race at age 45; failed in an effort to become vice-president at age 47; lost a senatorial race at age 49; and was elected president of the United States at age 52.

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Robert Fulton

Rogert Fulton

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Robert Fulton invented the steamboat. On the banks of the Hudson River he was displaying his new invention. The pessimists and the skeptics were gathered around to observe. They commented that it would never start. Lo and behold, it did. As it made its way down the river, the pessimists who said it would never go, started shouting that it would never stop. What an attitude!

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DAVID AND GOLIATH

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We all know the story of David and Goliath. There was a giant who was bullying and harassing the children in the village. One day, a 17-year-old shepherd boy came to visit  his brothers and asked, "Why don't you stand up and fight the giant?" The brothers were  terrified and they replied, "Don't you see he is too big to hit?" But David said, "No, he is not too big to hit, he is too big to miss." The rest is history. We all know what happened. David killed the giant with a sling. Same giant, different perception

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Balise Pascal

Balise Pascal

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Someone once approached Blaise Pascal, the famous French philosopher and said, "If I
had your brains, I would be a better person." Pascal replied, "Be a better person and you
will have my brains."
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