Giving up too soon

“Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world…”  ~ Jane Addams

·         Henry Ford failed and went broke five times before he succeeded.

·         When Bell Telephone was struggling to get started, its owners offered all their rights to Western Union for $100,000. The offer was disdainfully rejected with the pronouncement, "What use could this company make of an electrical toy?"

·         Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor because "he lacked imagination and had no good ideas." He went bankrupt several times before he built Disneyland. In fact, the proposed park was rejected by the city of Anaheim on the grounds that it would only attract riffraff...

·         English crime novelist John Creasey got 753 rejection slips before he published 564 books...

Do you feel like giving up?