Yes, we’re depressed about some of the election results from Tuesday. But this should only be an incentive to work harder and smarter and to be inspired by Honest Abe:

Abraham Lincoln’s Road To The White House

• Lost his job as a store clerk in 1831
• Defeated for state legislature in 1832
• Opened his own store that went bust in 1833
• Elected to state legislature in 1834
• His fiancee died in 1835
• Suffers nervous breakdown in 1836
• Defeated for Speaker of the Illinois House in 1838
• Defeated for Presidential Elector in 1840
• Defeated for Congress in 1843
• Elected to Congress in 1846
• Defeated for US Senate in 1854
• Defeated for Vice President in 1856
• Defeated for US Senate again in 1858
• Elected President in 1860
• Saved the Union