I came across this on Seth Godin’s blog, thought it was worth sharing.
The math is magical: you can pile up lots of failures and still keep rolling, but you only need one juicy success to build a career.
The killer is the category called ‘neither’. If you spend your days avoiding failure by doing not much worth criticizing, you’ll never have a shot at success. Avoiding the thing that’s easy to survive keeps you from encountering the very thing you’re after.
And yet we market and work and connect and create as if just one failure might be the end of us.
So I will not spend my days avoiding failure while trying to establish KSBKids as a well established online retailer for children’s clothes.
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Another great quote from Seth Godin’s blog “Re-experiencing failure in advance. What a waste”.
I may have gone a little “deep” this week with various quotes …. perhaps it sums up my week…. I will soon get back to writing about kids and
children’s clothes .
On a fantastic day like today with a real feeling of spring in the air it is perhaps time for a ”lighter” approach.
Enjoy the weather.
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In Seth Godin’s latest blog post he writes “Brilliant editors and venture capitalists have the ability to get excited about a project that perhaps doesn’t match their taste–or to criticize it based on experience, not selfishness. This is a really valuable skill, as it requires empathy, experience and judgment, not just the knee-jerk ability to pontificate”.
How very true is that? Ohhh yes and a foreigner like me had to look up pontificate!
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Beatrice 8 is learning about the Vikings and the Anglo-Saxons at school. Realising that she is not only 100% Norwegian but also that she has a few German ancestors she says:
Mummy, I’m actually both a Viking and a Anglo-Saxons. You know what that means? That I can’t be friends with myself!?
Children philosophy at its best!
Taken from http://littlescandinavian.com
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I like quotes….
They make me think, laugh or smile. Really they have very little to do with running an online children’s clothes shop. But they simply bring a little joy to my life.
“Learning isn’t compulsory neither is survival”.
W. Edward Deming
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“One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again”
Henry Ford
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“To venture is to lose your footing for awhile. Not to venture is to lose yourself”. Sums up my situation pretty accurately…………
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