It doesn’t take nine ‘no’s’ to get to a ‘yes’

It doesn’t take nine ‘no’s’ to get to a ‘yes’:

If you’ve ever done any sales training, the old adage goes that the ratio of ‘no’s’ to ‘yes’s’ is 9 to 1. So it takes nine ‘no’s’ to get to a ‘yes’.

If you’re an entrepreneur, you know this isn’t true.

Sylvester Stallone had to survive over 1,500 rejections before he got Rocky to be made on his terms (many by the same agents multiple times).

Thomas Edison had to endure thousands of attempts to invent a reliable, commercial version of a light bulb...