
The Link Between Failure and Success
Jack Ma, co-founder of the Alibaba Group and among the 40 richest persons in the world, famously discussed his long history of failure. He failed key exams for high school and for college. When he did graduate from college, he was rejected from the 30 jobs he applied to, including KFC, where he was the only one of 24 applicants not to get an offer. History is filled with examples of people who failed many times before achieving the successes they became famous for, leading some of them to highlight the key role played by failure.