Learning more from failure than success
- Nov 12, 2008
Firstly let me begin by saying, Richard Branson played a huge role in getting me to where I am today. I was blessed to work for Virgin Money Australia for a few years, during which I got to meet Richard a couple of times. Every morning as I walked into the office I would see inspirational quotes (by Richard) on the wall.
Every day I was surrounded by motivated, intelligent people who all shared a vision. Together we all made Richard's vision come to life, and it was amazing to be part of that and it ignited by entrepreneurial spirit.
I launched my fashion related business and applied many of the Virgin principles to what I was doing. My business grew quickly, so I left Virgin and before I knew it was stocked at a leading department store, which eventually led me to doing work on TV.
Virgin is all about being passionate, challenging and innovative. Whenever I make decisions about my business I consider these 3 principles. When I last saw Richard, he was pleased that my business was taking off and I gave him a shirt to wear. He did warn me that I will make mistakes, but to embrace them and learn. I certainly have made some mistakes along the way. At first I looked at them as failure and a weakness or I'd try to blame someone else, but eventually learned to accept the 'mistake', understand why it happened and take the learning from it, so it would not happen again.
I believe we learn more from failure than we do from our success.
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