How Many Times Should You Try?

• 3 times Steven Spielberg was rejected by 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 recepie
• 5126 times James Dyson created failed prototypes of his vacuum cleaner before succeeding

How Many times will you try?