Infographic: How Many Times Should You Try?

Here is a quick infographic that should pick your spirits up after a sales meeting gone wrong or 100 straight hang-ups during frustrating cold calls.

How Many Times Should You Try?

3 times, Steven Spielberg was rejected by the University of Southern California, after which he dropped out to become a director.
26 times Tim Ferris’s book The 4 Hour Workweek was rejected by publishers
104 times an average couple has sex before conceiving
162 times the author of this infographic made searches for this data
300 times founder of Pandora.com approached investors before he got funding
400 times a National Geographic photographer shoots before getting the final image
1009 times Colonel Sanders who just started KFC was turned down when he tried selling his fried chicken recipe
5126 times James Dyson created failed prototypes of his vacuum cleaner before succeeding