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Nobody ever learnt anything from Success, Failure however remains the most influential teacher for mankind. Here is a story about Failure which might motivate you to be a little more adventurous in your endeavors.

If you think about Amazon, what are the few adjectives that come in mind?
Success, tech, massive, disruption, wealth, returns, Bezos right?

But what if I told you that Failure is one of the biggest cornerstones of Amazon structure, CEO Jeff Bezos said shortly after the disastrous launch of the company’s Fire Phone:

“If you think that’s a big failure, we’re working on much bigger failures right now. I am not kidding. Some of them are going to make the Fire Phone look like a tiny little blip.”
Out of more than 21,000 venture financings from 2004 to 2014:

65% lost money. Two and a half percent of investments made a 10-20X.
One percent made more than a 20x return.

Half a percent- about 100 companies out of 21,000- earned 50x or more.
That’s where the majority of the industry’s returns come from.

Failures are powerful, only those with the bravest of hearts can deal with them.