Life = Risk
Don't be put off achieving your destiny, even if you have experienced failure in your life. This video mentions well known people who had failed, but kept pressing on until they became successful.
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Very inspirational. Given his vicissitudes (and his own experience inventing), is it any wonder that Lincoln was more in touch with the needs of inventors?
http://brokensymmetry.typepad.com/broken_symmetry/2008/04/lessons-from-li.html
and
http://brokensymmetry.typepad.com/broken_symmetry/2008/05/ip-is-not-an-as.html
Posted by: Michael F. Martin | May 17, 2008 7:46:59 PM
Media = Fibs - aka Someone's lying...
Saudis to boost oil output after US pressure
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/be0d6daa-2347-11dd-b214-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1
Saudis Rebuff Bush on Oil
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121092659447698421.html?mod=hpp_us_whats_news
Posted by: VennData | May 17, 2008 8:08:11 PM
Harry Truman. The "senator from Pendergast". Failed farmer and haberdasher by 38 years old. But, he did okay after that.
James Michener. He was an old man of 40 before he had his first successful novel with "Tales of the South Pacific". He went on to do okay with 75 million copies of his novels in print, not to mention the movies his books sired.
Posted by: engineer al | May 17, 2008 8:12:30 PM
The dirtiest word in the English language is can't. The worst thing to tell a child is no. It can corrupt a child's mind for life. There is no such thing as impossible. We are only limited by the voices in our head. If you've never failed, you've never tried.
Sam Walton didn't open the first Wal-mart until the age of 43. Ray Kroc didn't ring the bell until later in life.
"Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
The U.S. is very unique in the sense that people's lives are born and reborn time and again through transformation. Not always by choice or personal desire but some of the brutality of our style of capitalism leads to the 'necessity is the mother of invention' syndrome.
Posted by: bdg123 | May 17, 2008 8:14:25 PM
What if you're destined to be a failure?
Posted by: dSmith | May 17, 2008 9:22:41 PM
"What if you're desinte to be a failure?
Then your life can serve as an example to others!
Posted by: Pausebreak | May 17, 2008 9:31:28 PM
Thanks, I needed that.
Posted by: otto piloto | May 17, 2008 10:04:19 PM
in 1977 he started his first company. He got friends to invest in various drilling ventures that mostly went nowhere...He involved the entire nation in the "greatest strategic disaster in United States history". He left a major American city to drown and oversaw the greatest trade and budget deficits in American history. He approved torture policies which further diminished America's standing in the world....
That man was.....
aww fuck it.
Posted by: brion | May 17, 2008 10:14:50 PM
Colonel Sanders was running a filling station at 40 years of age. He didn't sell his first KFC franchise until he was 65.
Posted by: engineer al | May 17, 2008 10:23:47 PM
Thanks, Barry. I needed that!
Posted by: Average Joe | May 18, 2008 12:42:35 AM
If you want to add some more sizzle to your never give up mentality, or if you need a compelling reason to find one, check out 212 The Extra Degree.
I read the book, now I love the movie, thee site and the concept. I am not affiliated and do not even know the guy, but he is full of incite.
http://www.212movie.com/
Posted by: Karl Goldfield | May 18, 2008 1:53:48 AM
Barry great blog!
Life Comes At You Fast!
Faith, Hope, Love.
"Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent."
William Shakespeare
Posted by: David | May 18, 2008 3:28:28 AM
That was a good PSA
My buddy was surf'g Napster and I took a liking to this song and checked out Steve Vai this morning; Elusive Light & Sound Vol.1; you might like it BR; my impression he's a session artist
found it "Celluloid Heros" video by MewMegan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HWJyMb_RLc
Posted by: Greg0658 | May 18, 2008 7:42:41 AM
Life=Risk
unless you are the CEO!!!!!!
Ain't capitalism grand?!!!
Posted by: lurker | May 18, 2008 8:19:38 AM
GREAT video. A must watch.
Posted by: Owner Earnings | May 18, 2008 9:17:23 AM
Well brion, was he a success or FAILURE?
Posted by: me | May 18, 2008 9:20:30 AM
Am I the only one that finds it refreshing to see a child smiling and riding a bike without a helmet?
Posted by: Linda P. | May 18, 2008 9:41:26 AM
well me,
he went on to acquire great PERSONAL wealth......
Posted by: brion | May 18, 2008 11:07:47 AM
If failure = success—then George Bush will become th most successful U.S. President ever!
Posted by: Lloyd | May 18, 2008 11:55:14 AM
BR,
good of you to post such. to me, it's rather amazing that messages of affirmation are so seldom found-in most fora..
also, your turn on Kudlow showed, in living color, the Truth of the adage: "Discretion is the better part of Valor."
Posted by: Mark E Hoffer | May 18, 2008 8:51:05 PM
