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Principle #16 - Reject Rejection

Rejection is a natural part of life. Every successful person who has ever made it to the top had somehow endured lots of rejections in their life.

• When Colonel Harlan Sanders left home with his pressure cooker and his special recipe for cooking Southern fried chicken, he received over 300 rejections before he found someone to believe in his dream. Today there are more than 11,000 KFC restaurants in more than 80 countries around the world.
• When Alexander Graham Bell offered the rights to the telephone for $100,000 to Carl Orton, president of Western Union, Orton replied, "What use would this company make of an electrical toy." Today, almost every household in the world would have at least one telephone.
• In 1998, Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page approached Yahoo! and suggested a merger. Yahoo! suffested that the young Googlers keep working on their little school project and come back when they had grown up. Within 5 years, Google had an estimated market capitalization of $20 billion.

If you have ever experienced any rejections in life, that is because you're making some progress with your life. Anyone who has never experienced any rejections in life is clearly hiding in his comfortable shell and not making any progress in life.

For those who are moving ahead, the next time you ever bump into another rejection, just remember this:

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Some will, some won't; so what - someone's waiting!

Out there somewhere, someone is waiting for your ideas. It's just simply a numbers game. You just need to keep asking until you get a YES.