A salute to failure and the people who learned from it.
The greatest failure of all, however, is to fail to even attempt a new idea.

"I haven't even failed once; 9,000 times I've learned what doesn't work."
- Thomas Edison

Click questions to test your knowledge of some famous entrepreneurs and their not-so-famous failures.

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There is something to be learned from each and every failure. Almost every area of business innovation has had a long history of failures which ultimately led to success, because the companies involved learned from them and made the necessary changes in subsequent endeavors.

 

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