{"id":1784,"date":"2006-04-25T22:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-25T22:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2014-08-27T07:49:52","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T12:49:52","slug":"failure-highway-to-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2006\/04\/failure-highway-to-success.html","title":{"rendered":"Failure: The Highway to Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Cornwall, <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/cornwall\/archives\/005046.html\">The Entrepreneurial Mind<\/a>, is also thinking about success and failure:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most highly successful entrepreneurs will tell you that along the road to success in their businesses they were often on the brink of failure. But they persevered. They found a way to make payroll. They found a way to make that critical sale. They found a way to keep the wolves away from the door just long enough to make it through the tough times. They found a way to pick themselves up from a business that did not succeed and move on to the next one that might.<br \/>&#8230;<br \/>We seem to have forgotten that failure, in fact, builds character. And it is the fear of failure that inhibits creativity and keeps us from learning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/small+biz\" rel=\"tag\">small biz<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/rural\" rel=\"tag\">rural<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/entrepreneurship\" rel=\"tag\">entrepreneurship<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Cornwall, The Entrepreneurial Mind, is also thinking about success and failure: Most highly successful entrepreneurs will tell you that along the road to success in their businesses they were often on the brink of failure. But they persevered. They found a way to make payroll. They found a way to make that critical sale. [&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\/1784"}],"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=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3635,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions\/3635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}