This is a YouTube video titled "What They Don't Tell You in Overnight Success Stories" featuring Allison Maslan delivering a motivational business talk recorded in June 2012. Allison shares inspiring stories of famous entrepreneurs who faced multiple failures before achieving success, emphasizing persistence, determination, and resilience as key factors in overcoming obstacles and realizing dreams.
Hi, it's Allison Maslin. I'm getting ready to go on the set of my live television show Ally and you'd which is at 4:15 Pacific every Wednesday on wazillomedia.com and I wanted to share a little bit of business advice for you today. I don't know about you, but I'm really inspired by moving stories of entrepreneurs or talents or, or artists that just, you know, they refused to back down even when all odds were against them. You know, they have that heart and they have that determination and they have that persistence that gets them through. Now we always hear about these great overnight success stories, but I promise you, when you get the real story behind the scenes of what really happened, it's like that 20 year overnight success story, right? You don't hear all of the toiling and the hard work and all the walls that they had to break through and the falls that they had before they rose to the top. Because yes, it takes an idea and putting that idea out into the world, but it takes handling the rejection and the money not coming in. And it's as if the universe is testing you, saying how badly do want it? I mean, there's so many amazing stories like this. For instance, Henry Ford, right? The big automobile, Ford Motor Company, he failed like five times in business before he got the company up and running into obviously what it is today. Walt Disney, he had several bankruptcies. In fact, someone that he worked for, this newspaper he worked for, told him he had no imagination or creativity at all. I mean, a lot of you may have heard that and then quit in your life. Well, thank goodness he didn't because look at the billion dollar industry and Mickey Mouse, we would have all missed out on that. Let's see, WD40, I could go on and on. It was because there was 39 failed attempts before they got the 40th one that worked. It could have been WD35, right? And even, you know, like Pinterest, when you read the history, because we see how Pinterest has really taken off. But they really struggled in the beginning. And if they had followed advice that some people were giving them, they would have given up. So if you have a dream inside of you, if you feel like you've been beating your head against the wall and you're just not seeing your way through, you just got to hang in there. I promise you the answer is there. You may have to go back to the drawing board. You may have to get more creative and look for this, the path, passageway through. But if you want it bad enough. You've got that heart and you've got that desire. That's where the winning comes from. And that's the difference between someone who makes skyrocket success and someone who doesn't. Alright, I honor you. Dream big and go for it. It's Alyson Maslin and I'll talk to you soon.
