Want to be a successful entrepreneur? I suggest you read Skelliewag and her post on the Audacity of Failure. Skellie writes about blogging. But her principles equally apply to entrepreneurs.

Briefly, Skellie writes:

Part of being audacious is being ignored, or rejected, or brushed off, or criticized. You will sometimes fail. You’ll certainly make mistakes. I’ve experienced all of those things, and if you’re audacious, you will too.

Thankfully, both Albert Einstein and Michael Jordan (strange bedfellows, no?) have a few words of wisdom on that point:

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
– Michael Jordan

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
– Albert Einstein

Pierre Cutler
The Sacramento Executive