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How Many Times Should You Try?

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How Many Times Should You Try?

How Many Times Should You Try?

  • 3 times Steven Spielberg was rejected by University of Southern California, after which he dropped out to become a director.
  • 26 times Tim Ferris’s book The 4 Hour WorkWeek was rejected by publishers
  • 104 times an average couple has sex before conceiving
  • 162 times the author of this infographic made searches for this data
  • 300 times founder of Pandora.com approached investors before he got funding
  • 400 times a National Geographic photographer shoots before getting the final image
  • 1009 times Colonel Sanders who just started KFC was turned down when he tried selling his fried chicken recepie
  • 5126 times James Dyson created failed prototypes of his vacuum cleaner before succeeding

How Many times will you try?

 

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