By Douglas Armey
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” Robert F. Kennedy
I’ve spent sleepless nights staring at the ceiling in the dark worrying if we would survive failure.
We’ve built five businesses and helped turnaround a dying church. People have sabotaged and threatened me. We’ve come close to bankruptcy once and failure countless times. I’ve been scared. Yet, would I go back and do it all over the easy way? Not take on the challenges? Sometimes I dream about that. But no.
We all have dreams. Dreams to accomplish great and meaningful things. Dreams to be successful beyond the ordinary.
But when we set out to accomplish them it’s scary. We could fail. And the greater the dream the more spectacular the failure.
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