International Consolidated Companies Inc (INCC)

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Antonio Uccello, the CEO of INCC, can become a success! Look at the following examples of others who were either failures initially or had significant difficulties before becoming some of the most influential business/political Titans: 


Some of the most influential -- not to mention stinking rich -- people in history were at least briefly considered to be losers who would never amount to anything.

Adaptability: Business success requires the ability to adapt to changing situations. Nothing ever goes as planned. The world of business is full of surprises and unforeseen events. Using the habit of adaptability allows business owners to respond to circumstances with the ability to change course and act without complete information. Being flexible allows us to respond to changes without being paralyzed with fear and uncertainty.

Charles Goodyear - numerous failures and tragedies before ever becoming a success

Charles Goodyear's misfortunes began early in his career. He failed in business, his health broke down, and through life thereafter he suffered from almost continual attacks of dyspepsia. He was, moreover, a small, frail man, with a weak constitution. He was imprisoned for debt after his failure; nor was this the only time that he found himself within the walls of a jail. That was almost a frequent experience with him in after life.


He was bankrupt, in bad health, with a growing family dependent on him, and no means of support. Yet he persevered, through years of wretchedness, to the very end. It is a striking fact that his very first experiment was made in a prison cell.


It was by accident at last that he hit upon the secret of how to make India-rubber durable.


Two years were still to elapse, however, before Goodyear could make practical use of his great discovery. He had tired everybody out by his previous frequent assertions that his invention had been perfected, when it had until now always proved a failure. Many a time he had gone to his friends, declaring that he had succeeded, so that when he really had made the discovery nobody believed in it.

Charles Goodyear was probably considered a failure by both friends and family for years before ever becoming successful.  Imprisoned, bankrupt, poor he endured the struggles and reaped the rewards of his labor.  So those barking that Antonio Uccello can not run his own life, please understand that the past does not define the final destination of an individual it is a part of the process of refining the character of the individual.  To mock and defame Mr. Uccello is to discredit numerous individuals in history who despite adversity were continually driven to reach their dreams because to quit is to be a failure.


Henry Ford Failures:

Henry Ford is credited with saying, “Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” He would have known, because he endured significant setbacks before finding a winning formula in the automobile industry. And Ford is far from the only incredibly successful person who earned fame and fortune only after making notable missteps. In fact, some of the most influential -- not to mention stinking rich -- people in history were at least briefly considered to be losers who would never amount to anything. They either got fired, rejected for jobs, launched an ill-conceived product, or otherwise fell well short of the standards they’d later set.

Abraham Lincoln was not always a success:

A common list of the failures [and difficulties] of Abraham Lincoln (along with a few successes) is:


1831 - Lost his job

1832 - Defeated in run for Illinois State Legislature

1833 - Failed in business

1834 - Elected to Illinois State Legislature (success)

1835 - Sweetheart died

1836 - Had nervous breakdown

1838 - Defeated in run for Illinois House Speaker

1843 - Defeated in run for nomination for U.S. Congress

1846 - Elected to Congress (success)

1848 - Lost re-nomination

1849 - Rejected for land officer position

1854 - Defeated in run for U.S. Senate

1856 - Defeated in run for nomination for Vice President

1858 - Again defeated in run for U.S. Senate

1860 - Elected President (success)

Lincoln had 10 failed attempts at buisness or politics versus 2 successes before finally being elected as President.


Walt Disney:

You are a struggling entrepreneur and sometimes it feels like you are pushing a 3 ton boulder up a steep hill. Costs keep mounting and you are considering giving up. Well before you do, check out these 10 setbacks that Walt Disney had, some were financial nightmares that put him millions of dollars in the red:


1) Walt formed his first animation company in Kansas City in 1921. He made a deal with a distribution company in New York, in which he would ship them his cartoons and get paid six months down the road. Flushed with success, he began to experiment with new storytelling techniques, his costs went up and then the distributor went bankrupt. He was forced to dissolve his company and at one point could not pay his rent and was surviving by eating dog food.


2) Walt created a mildly successful cartoon character in 1926 called Oswald the Rabbit. When he tried to negotiate with his distributor, Universal Studios, for better rates for each cartoon, he was informed that Universal had obtained ownership of the Oswald character and they had hired Disney's artists out from under him.


3) When Walt tried to get MGM studios to distribute Mickey Mouse in 1927 he was told that the idea would never work-- a giant mouse on the screen would terrify women.


4) The Three Little Pigs was rejected by distributors in 1933 because it only had four characters, it was felt at that time that cartoons should have as many figures on the screen as possible. It later became very successful and played at one theater so long that the poster outside featured the pigs with long white beards.


5) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was sneak previewed to College Students in 1937 who left halfway during the film causing Disney great despair. It turned out the students had to leave early because of dorm curfew.


6) Pinocchio in 1940 became extra expensive because Walt shut down the production to make the puppet more sympathetic than the lying juvenile delinquent as presented in the original Carlo Collodi story. He also resurrected a minor character, an unnamed cricket who tried to tell Pinocchio the difference between right and wrong until the puppet killed him with the mallet. Excited by the development of Jiminy Cricket plus the revamped, misguided rather than rotten Pinocchio, Walt poured extra money into the film's special effects and it ended up losing a million dollars in it's first release.


7) For the premiere of Pinocchio Walt hired 11 midgets, dressed them up like the little puppet and put them on top of Radio City Music Hall in New York with a full day's supply of food and wine. The idea was they would wave hello to the little children entering into the theater. By the middle of the hot afternoon, there were 11 drunken naked midgets running around the top of the marquee, screaming obscenities at the crowd below. The most embarrassed people were the police who had to climb up ladders and take the little fellows off in pillowcases.


8) Walt never lived to see Fantasia become a success. 1940 audiences were put off by it's lack of a story. Also the final scene, The Night On Bald Mountain sequence with the devil damning the souls of the dead, was considered unfit for children.


9) In 1942, Walt was in attendance for the premiere of Bambi. In the dramatic scene where Bambi's mother died, Bambi was shown wandering through the meadow shouting,' Mother! Where are you, Mother?' A teenage girl seated in the balcony shouted out, ' Here I am Bambi!' The audience broke into laughter except for the red-faced Walt who concluded correctly that war-time was not the best time to release a film about the love-life of a deer.


10) The sentimental Pollyanna in 1960 made Walt cry at the studio screening but failed at the box office. Walt concluded that the title was off-putting for young boys.


Walt was human, he suffered through many fits of anger and depression through his many trials. Yet he learned from each setback, and continued to take even bigger risks which combined with the wisdom that experiencing failure can provide, led to fabulous financial rewards.

Colonel Harland Sanders:

At age 65, after 25 years in the restaurant business, Colonel Harland Sanders was effectively broke.


Shortly after he received his first social security check for $105. With nothing but his social security check and a killer chicken recipe Harland hit the road looking for restaurants to buy the rights to his recipe.


He lived in his car for 2 years and was rejected 1,009 times before finally finding a restaurant owner who agreed to use his recipe.


Hold on… let’s think about this. Here’s a guy, aged 65, living in his car driving around the country looking for someone to buy his chicken recipe. He took over a thousand “No’s” before getting even on “Yes”. That’s 1.4 ‘No’s” per day every day for 2 years. I can’t even imagine…

Just think if Colonel Sanders gave up because his plan kept changing due to rejection after rejection before success we would not have KFC.


Richard Branson had many failures:

'Learn from failure. If you are an entrepreneur and your first venture wasn’t a success, welcome to the club!’

-Branson

Branson had poor reading and math skills, dropped out of high-school and is proud to admit he’s dyslexic all his life. Not really your first choice for a billionaire philanthropist knight and worldwide media icon.


But this guy, with his perfect 59-year old blonde hair and dazzling mumbling charm didn’t always have a hold over an empire of 400 companies. His first business endeavor, the Student Magazine which he started when he was 16, had difficulties with, believe it or not, the UK’s law enforcement agencies. Richard almost went to jail for publishing remedies for veneral disease in the magazine.


It didn’t stop there. His Virgin record shops, in the midst of cash-flow problems, almost put him in jail again. This time it was for something more serious: tax evasion. After spending one night in prison, the plea bargain for £60,000 was paid.


The experience, as he recalls, had a big impact on him: ‘I vowed to myself that I would never again do anything that would cause me to be imprisoned or, indeed, do any kind of business deal that would embarrass me.’


The trend of failures however kept on going for him for pretty much his entire life: Virgin Cola (for which he drove a tank in Times Square), Virgin Vodka, Virgin Vie, Virgin Brides (for which he dressed up as a bride), Virgin Clothing, Virgin Cars, Virgin Digital all failed. And the list could go on for a long time.