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Also, add to your list: George Washington. Washington LOST most of his battles but WON the crucial ones. By some estimates, he only won TWO major battles but that's open to debate re significance. What's important was that he hung on despite many retreats and an increasingly demoralized revolutionary army.
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Oh well the list of people who were monumental failures many times before they succeeded could fill volumes. Thomas Edison and his 1000 failed attempts at making a light bulb come to mind.
I was limiting my list to people who had filed bankruptcy.
One of my favorite quotes, is from Albert Gray, who wrote "The Common Denominator of Success" (I haven't read the book, it was quoted in another book I read)
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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.
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One thing that failures don't like to do is take risks. Risk being humiliated if they fail. Risk going broke if the business doesn't work out. Give up that safe job and pension to start a new company on a shoestring. Have the balls to look for investors for a new business the day after you file bankruptcy on the previous one. (see Donald Trump)