So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
While statistics say that 95 percent of all young men who enter business fail, this should not discourage any one. Go out with the spirit “sink or swim,”and a person will not sink.