{"id":1415,"date":"2007-05-31T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2014-08-27T07:48:42","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T12:48:42","slug":"failure-quote-failures-have-done-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2007\/05\/failure-quote-failures-have-done-more.html","title":{"rendered":"Failure Quote: The failures have done more for me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The very wise <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rexblog.com\/2007\/05\/22\/16910\/\">Rex Hammock<\/a> recently pulled up something he wrote in 2000:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Even smart businesses managed by smart individuals and smart investors die. Businesses start and die every day. They always have. They always will. I am old enough &#8211; and have been fortunate enough &#8211; to have succeeded significantly and failed miserably and frankly, the failures have done more for me than the successes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rex has nailed why failure is an important topic. I agree. In fact, I have written a whole <a set=\"yes\" href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/search\/label\/failure\">series<\/a> on it, as part of my masterplan to define failure as a positive concept.<\/p>\n<p><em>New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2006\/05\/tour-of-small-biz-survival_29.html\"> Guided Tour<\/a>. Like what you see? <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/get-updates.html\">Get our updates. <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The very wise Rex Hammock recently pulled up something he wrote in 2000: Even smart businesses managed by smart individuals and smart investors die. Businesses start and die every day. They always have. They always will. I am old enough &#8211; and have been fortunate enough &#8211; to have succeeded significantly and failed miserably and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,21],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8183,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions\/8183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}