By Jesse James
When it comes to the entrepreneurial journey, learning is the pathway to success. That learning usually comes from failure. No entrepreneur likes to fail, but the fact is most do.
Some very successful entrepreneurs of yesterday and today experienced failure and learned from it on their way to success:
American inventor Thomas Edison tried thousands and thousands of times to invent the electric light bulb before eventually succeeding. Walt Disney’s first animation company, Laugh-O-Gram Studio, went bankrupt, but Disney went on from there to create an entertainment empire. Steve Jobs, cofounder of Apple, was fired from the company in the mid-1980s