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Originally Posted by Snake Doctor
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)
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If by 'failure' you mean average joes who aren't millionaires, I agree. They're average because they don't take risks. There are no rewards without risks. I don't consider them failures though, unless one believes 90% of people are failures. Most people don't have the skill (intelligence, temperament) to make it big. I think you're only a failure if you have ability and you don't do anything with it (trying is not failing).
If Andy Grove of Intel died after having built his first 99 companies, all of them which eventually failed according to him, he would have died a financial failure, but not a true failure, because he was always trying. Fortunately for us and him he lived to build his 100th company which was Intel.
Trump was the son of a millionaire which hardly makes him average. The beauty of that is starting out your life with the best education, millions in the bank, bailout if needed, and friends in high places when the chips are down.
The key is to just keep trying. Most don't have what it takes to make it (genetically), others do have the intelligence but never try because they lack the temperament (determination etc). Still, others try but never hit it (they never get their 100th company - right time, idea, opportunity), and still others have the ability and are able to make a go out of it after trying very hard.