Everyone – or nearly everyone stumbles and fails at some point in their life. Even Jamie Dimon was fired as an executive at Citigroup after 15 years.  Soon thereafter he was appointed CEO of JP Morgan and became a billionaire. See the video.

This reminds us of  a memorable scene in the movie Wall Street when Bud Fox (played by Charlie Sheen) is about to be arrested and taken to jail in handcuffs by the Feds for some shady trades, and his boss Hal Holbrook puts his arm around him and says: “Bud, in everyone’s life a man looks into the abyss, there’s nothing staring back at him. At that moment, a man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.”

There is NO shame in failing. We learn from our failures. There is only shame in never trying.  Be sure to tell your kids or grandkids.