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Failure: The Blog 
August 2018
- When This Executive Was Fired, He Took Charge
- Obeying The Speed Limit Has Never Been More Fun
- London Black Cabs Helped Uber Grow
- Bette Graham Created A Product To Fix Her Mistakes
- Flamin' Hot Cheetos Had An Interesting Start
July 2018
- Fear This Instead Of Failure
- Re-Releasing Songs Created Success
- A CEO's Purposeful Mistake
- The Tardy Student And The Unsolvable Problem
- Fixing Potholes Through Graffiti
June 2018
- A Surprising Mistake In The Oxford English Dictionary
- US Army Embraces Mistakes
- Blocking A Hymn
- Eddie Shore Was Truly A Tough Guy
- [Video] Elon Musk Didn't "Pivot" He Failed
May 2018
- 8 Examples of Mental Toughness Part 2
- Necessity Turned Accessory: Allen Iverson's Sleeve
- This Doctor Has Continued To Fail
- 8 Examples of Mental Toughness
- MIT Accidentally Creates New Smelting Process
April 2018
- Johnny Cash Quit Singing Lessons
- Cruise Control Came Out of Frustration
- Time Spent Gaming Pays Off In The Navy
- Rock Around The Clock Was a Commercial Failure
- Sigmund Freud Should Have Been Discouraged
March 2018
Dave Ramsey on Success
The financial superstar Dave Ramsey has something to say about victory. He quips: “Success is a pile of failure that you are standing on.”
Today, Dave Ramsey is a multi-millionaire, and international speaker, a New York times best-selling author and a household name. However, he wasn’t always doing so great. Dave Ramsey has made some major mistakes.
If you spend any time listening to Dave Ramsey’s radio show or hearing him speak, you’ll find that his lessons about money management come from personal experience. That’s right: Dave Ramsey was broke. Dave Ramsey lost millions in the real estate business. He fielded phone calls from creditors, wrecked his own credit rating and even filed for bankruptcy.
That quote from Ramsey—”success is a pile of failure you are standing on”—might make it sound like success is a place you reach. Isn’t Dave Ramsey done? He’s rich, influential and certainly has few of the practical concerns that most of us face. It might seem like failure is merely a precursor to success.
But even Dave Ramsey is still facing failure. The Fox Business Network decided to kick him off the air. One blogger said:
Anything would be an improvement given Ramsey was better at putting people to sleep than getting them out of debt. We’re not exactly surprised by this one – Ramsey never gelled with the rest of FBN’s line-up. Our source put it this way: “He possessed the lethal combination of lacking the charisma and warmth to carry his own television show combined with the delusional arrogance to think he was the next Dr. Phil.”
Those are harsh words of failure. But they won’t set back someone like Dave Ramsey, who also knows that failure is the secret to success.
