Learning more from failure than success
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.
http://www.galella.com/
4 Responses to “Learning more from failure than success”
Andrew Galasetti - November 12th, 2008
I was always embarrassed of my “failures” but now I embrace them because you never fail to learn from failure.
-Andrew
Donna Jackson - November 12th, 2008
Hi Richard, So big brands are twittering and blogging at last.
I wrote a post about it and your virgin bag giveaway on http://www.wisequeen.com.
looking forward to your book,
Wisequeen
Dave Carruthers - November 17th, 2008
Richard
Great to see you on twitter and great post.
I am big believer in this, I have recently experienced a failure in one of my businesses but I have learned an incredible amount because of it and now better positioned than ever before to drive my business forward.
Cahir O'Doherty - November 19th, 2008
http://www.galella.com/ (Good Site)
The site looks well however I would drop the ‘white’ flashing intro. You wouldn’t want someone logging on to your site with a condition of epilepsy!
I design websites and I would rate that as a common ‘NO’ in terms of a design element.
Cahir
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