Success is 99% Failure

Sochiro Honda – founder of Honda Motor Company said – Success is 99% Failure.

What did he mean?

When I first read this quote I thought – what a pile of BS double talk. But as I grew, I understood consciously and intuitively what Mr. Honda meant.

To understand Mr. Honda, I turned my attention to my own life. I’ve spent my entire life failing at important stuff…

When I first walked, I fell
When I spoke I stuttered
When I wrote a "d" it looked like "b"
When I wrote a "b" it looked like a "d"
When I sprinted I puked
When I rode a bike I crashed
When I played football I fumbled
When I was a student I failed more classes than I passed
My first three girlfirends either dumped me or were nuts
When I ran for political office I lost – Thank God!
When I started a dot com in 1997, I worked 90 hours a week for two years and never made a dollar
When I drove a truck, I dumped 2,000 gallons of paint (by accident) in a parking lot and created an environmental hazard (we cleaned it up)
When I first drove, I totaled 4 cars
When I first used Windows 95, I trashed the entire file system
When I first administered data I deleted an entire customer database without a backup – and I lived to talk about it
That’s just a few of my failures. Believe me, I have a lot more. My failures used to haunt me. They used to inhibit me from trying again.

But today I believe…

The day you quit trying and concede to your demons is the day your soul dies.

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