FAIL YOUR WAY TO SUCCESS:

This story is about Soichiro.
He began by making piston rings. He tried selling it to Toyota but they rejected him. Business was so bad, he pawned his wife’s jewelry to keep his business afloat. After building his factory, it got burned to the ground.

What did Soichiro do? He built it again.
That was when it burned down a second time.
He built it up again.
Not long after that, an earthquake tore his factory.
He built it up a third time.
Because of the war, gas was expensive. So to go around, Soichiro used his bicycle. But he attached a little engine to it so that he didn’t have to pedal. When everyone who saw it wanted one, he knew he had a winner in his hands.

His full name is Soichiro Honda. He became the first mass producer of motorcycles.

He says:

Success can be achieved only through repeated failure. My success represents the one percent of the work that resulted from the 99 percent that was called failure…