Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
-- Coco Chanel
For more about Coco Chanel, keep reading....
About the Quote
Sometimes ignorance is bliss. According to principles of aerodynamics, the bumblebee should not be able to fly-- yet it flies. Had some entrepreneurs paid been made aware of the pitfalls and traps they would face on they way to success, they may have dropped out or quit and we wouldn't even know about what they would have provided us. Had some politicians known ahead of time what obstacles they would have faced on the way to being elected, many would have terminated their candidacies early or not have even bothered to begin with.
Over time, failure is inescapable. By the end of the 2015-2016 NBA season, the Golden State Warriors won a record 73 games in the 82-game season, and even that team couldn't escape 9 losses. To keep the losses limited to that record-setting low, the Warriors had to bounce back quickly and then sustain long winning streaks.
Nearly all of us know that failure is part of the process of achieving success. What we need to do is not dwell on failure as we move forward. We weal with failure when it happens, then we move on. We can't allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear of failure. If this means we become willfully ignorant, then that's what we do.
Some (More) Information about Coco Chanel
By the late 1920s, before the Great Depression, Coco Chanel's enterprises were worth millions of dollars and employed over 2,000 people. Among Coco Chanel's enterprises were a jewelry workshop, a perfume laboratory, and a textile mill.
Chanel as a brand began to take off when it introduced the signature perfume product, Chanel No. 5. This perfume was introduced to the marke in 1921. It was made with help from of of the most talented French perfume creators, Ernst Beaux. According to legend, Beaux had created for Chanel a series of sample scents, and she chose the 5th scent. At the time, the market featured perfumes which contained just once scent; Chanel No. 5 was different in that it was a combination of jasmine with a few other floral scents. Coco Chanel was the first major fashion designer to introduce a perfume, and this perfume would be packaged in sleep and simple bottle.
Coco Chanel teamed up with two businessmen, Théophile Bader of the Galeries Lafayette department store, and Pierre Wertheimer of the cosmetics company Bourjois. They agreed to help her produce more Chanel No. 5 perfume as well as to market it in exchange for a share of the profits.
At the time, Chanel had signed a contract which awarded her only 10 percent of the royalties on sales of Chanel No. 5. Over the course of many years, she filed a series of lawsuits aimed at restoring control of her signature product, Chanel No. 5. She was never able to renegotiate the terms of her original deal. Even so, Chanel was able to make enough profit from sales of the perfume that Chanel No. 5 formed the basis for her business empire.
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