Top Inspiring Examples Who Bounced Back From Failure to Massive Success
- Apr 19, 2018
- 4 min read
There’s probably nothing more crushing than failing after you’ve given your all, your everything, to a project, a business, a relationship, or to life, in general. Just the thought of being rejected, of being declined, of failing, is a depressing thought.
You’ll learn inspiring stories of modern day heroes who’ve stepped up from the very bottom and risen to the pinnacle of success. If you’re in a bad situation now, lighten up. For as long you’ve got life in you, there’s no reason not to continue fighting for your dreams.
“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.” – Confucius
Henry Ford
We have much to thank Henry Ford for. The Model-T Ford was the first affordable motorized family vehicle and led to cars being widely owned. As well, Henry Ford’s manufacturing and business processes helped introduce the concept of franchising and revolutionized the car-making industry. Before the success of the Model-T though, Ford founded two vehicle manufacturing companies that weren’t successes for him personally.
The Detroit Automobile
Company was only in operation for two years, from 1898 to 1901, and the Henry Ford Company only included Henry Ford himself for one year before he left and it was renamed the Cadillac Automobile Company.
Abraham Lincoln
One of the country’s founding fathers, Abraham Lincoln is remembered fondly as one of the most beloved Presidents in our history, being responsible for the abolition of slavery during the American Civil War. Despite his later political success, he actually ran for public office and lost at least twice before being elected President. He also had a failed business attempt under his belt before going into politics in 1832, at age 23.
Rowland Hussey Macy
Macy’s department store is one of the most renowned businesses of our times, with its annual Thanksgiving Day parade filling the streets with spectators and drawing millions more on tv. It’s been featured on tv shows and in movies since the 1940’s. With this level of success it won’t come as a surprise to anyone that its namesake and founder, Rowland Hussey Macy, opened four different dry goods stores between 1843 and 1855 before he opened the New York flagship store in 1858. The surprising part is that all his earlier business ventures failed.
Steven Spielberg
Chances are when you list your favorite movies, there are at least a few directed by Steven Spielberg. His career includes awesome cinematic masterpieces like Jaws, Close Encounters of a Third Kind, the Indiana Jones movies, E.T., The Color Purple, Schindler’s List, Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan, and Catch Me if You Can. His career began in 1964 and continues to this day, so it is super surprising to learn that he was rejected by the University of Southern California School of Theater, Film, and Television, TWICE, before becoming a student at California State University.
Walt Disney
One of the most famous “failures” of all time, Walt Disney is known as the most successful animator of all time, his work earning him a record number of awards and nominations while he was alive and his studios and theme parks continuing to lead the world of entertainment, even after his death in 1966. His first attempt at a film company, Iwerks-Disney Commercial Artists, was a short-lived venture in 1920 and his second try in 1922, Laugh-O-Gram Studio, went bankrupt within a year. He saw brief success from 1923 to 1927 distributing a series of cartoons based on Alice in Wonderland called Alice Comedies, on which he did the animation himself, but the series eventually lost popularity and fell into obscurity.
In the next decade, Disney saw limited success with other series he created and sold, and was criticized while he worked on a full length animated feature, Snow White, people referring to it as “Disney’s folly”. In fact, the three year production of Snow White almost caused a bankruptcy, but in the end it was released in 1938 and became the year’s most successful movie, earning over $8 million.
Thomas Edison
Synonymous with genius, Thomas Edison is one of the most world renowned inventors of our modern age. Credited with inventing many widely used modern wonders including the phonograph and the light bulb, he is also recognized as the forefather of the research laboratory because he applied mass production methodologies to the work of invention. Because of his reputation for genius, it comes as a shock that he only had three months of formal education before he was asked to leave school because he couldn’t focus and was described as “addled” by the teacher. Despite being home schooled by his mother and being almost deaf as a result of scarlet fever, he still went on to become a prolific inventor and businessman, starting 14 different ventures, including General Electric.
If you try and retrace your steps, you’ll find you tripped on a rock or something. Or, you can choose not to look back and just continue running, trying to get to the finish line as soon as you can so you can finally finish your marathon.
You’ll probably fall so many times that your knees and your palms will be bruised and sore. But you keep on going. With the right attitude and the right mindset, you can get past all those challenges. You’ve got your eyes set on the prize. You’ve planned methodically, and you’re willing to do whatever it takes to achieve your big dream.
When you reach the finish line, you can rest easy knowing you’ve finally succeeded in what you set out to do!
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