Flourish Health & Wellbeing Magazine - Mar 24 - Flipbook - Page 18
Many people we consider as having
huge success have failed multiple times.
Stephen King9s novel, 'Carrie' was
rejected by 30 publishers and a similar
number initially rejected 'Harry Potter'.
The founder of Honda went broke, had
his first factory bombed during the
Second World War and his second
factory was destroyed by an
earthquake, but we still see Hondas on
our roads. Perhaps even more famously,
whilst attempting to develop the world9s
first commercially usable lightbulb,
Thomas Edison is quoted as saying: