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Failure is Greater than Success

The message of failure, on the contrary, is quite the reverse.
It tells you that you have not yet reached your destination
and you have to try again, and make far greater efforts than
before.

ill Gates (b. 1955) the American business magnate
Bwho co-founded Microsoft, once said: “I failed in
some subjects in exams, but my friend passed in all of
them. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the
owner of Microsoft.” Gates is now consistently ranked
in the Forbes list of the world’s wealthiest people.
Why was there this difference between two men who
were following the same career path? The reason is that
initial success caused Gates’ friend to imagine that he
had reached his ultimate destination. Therefore, his
struggle ended at the point where he got a job and
began to lead a ‘normal’ life.

Bill Gates’ failure, however, gave him the incentive to
accomplish more and more in order to obtain what he
had failed to achieve on the university campus. It was
this attitude that made Bill Gates a winner and finally
he emerged as a great name in business.
There are many such examples in history that tell

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