Generally in life, if you work hard and sensibly you will reap the harvest of your labour. This is true in business, and especially true of entrepreneurship. The public may look to the success stories of the 'Dragons Den' panel （BBC business reality show） and perceive these entrepreneurs as being lucky, or having some business flair denied to the rest of us. The reality is usually far more mundane and tedious. These stars of the business world have all succeeded through careful planning, hard work and perseverance. And more than one extremely wealthy self-made businessperson has failed miserably.

    Causes of failure

    Unfortunately, nothing in life is ever a definite given, and businesses often fail. Entrepreneurs are often cited as examples of people who make bad business managers. It is the process of starting a business from an idea that gets them excited. Often, the mundane execution of routine tasks gets neglected or handled badly. And this lack of understanding amongst entrepreneurs has caused many a failure over the years. Telecoms millionaire Peter Jones for example went bankrupt and lost everything. He slept in his business unit until he devised his comeback plan. He made a relatively common mistake that many businesses make when they start out. In his case he relied too heavily on one supplier. Some firms manage to get away with it for a while, others, like Jones' didn't. The point is that the man was not born with a preordained right to become immensely wealthy. He made it, lost it all and learned from his mistakes the hard way. He is a now lot more careful. And a lot more wealthy due to his stubborn perseverance.

    Put your situation into perspective

    Failure is a relative term. Peter Jones interprets his early business failure as feedback. We could learn much from the likes of Jones. Entrepreneurs should also take some pride in the fact that even if their start-up does fail; at least they attempted to become successful. It isn't everyone that actually goes out and forms their own business in the hope of improving their life. That fact alone puts them above most of the population in terms of business achievements. No businessman has a blemish-free career. How a person deals with a failure is what truly distinguishes them from their peers, and unfortunately, this is a lesson that can only be learned through experience.

    在生活中，一般來說，如果你努力并聰明地工作，你將會收割你勞動的豐收成果。這種說法在商業中，由其是在創業中是真實的。公眾們可以看到"龍穴"（BBC商業寫實節目）里面的成功故事，同時感覺這些企業家們很幸運，或者有一些我們其他人沒有的商業眼光。實際情況是，通常情況下，這是十分普通和乏味的一件事。這些商界明星都是通過仔細的計劃，努力工作和堅持不懈的精神來獲得成功的。并且除了極端富有的財富外，靠自己努力成功的商業人士們也經歷過痛苦的失敗。

    失敗的原因

    很遺憾，在生活中沒有任何事情是一成不變的，生意經常會失敗。企業家們經常被引用作為不善經營理財的范例。從一個想法到真正開始經營一個生意的過程使得他們興奮。通常，對于慣常程序任務平平無奇的執行被忽視或者被槽糕的操作。同時，多年來，企業家們對該問題缺乏的理解已經導致了很多的失敗。以電信業的百萬富翁Peter Jones為例，他曾經破產并失去了一切。他在他的經營單位里面睡覺直到他想出了他的復興計劃。他曾犯下一個相對較普遍的錯誤，這一錯誤是在許多生意剛開始時經常犯的錯誤。在他的這一實例中，他非常依賴于一個供應商。一些公司在一定時間內設法規避了這一錯誤，其他的公司，如Jone的公司，沒能做到。問題是人類不是天生就注定去做正確的事，然后就變得非常富有的。他破產了，失去了全部，然后從他的錯誤中吃一塹長一智。現在他更加謹慎，然后由于他頑固的，堅持不懈的努力，最終更多的財富向他涌來。

    將你置于有希望的環境中

    失敗時一個相對的概念。Peter Jones 將他早期的生意失敗解讀為反饋信息。我們能從Jones這類人中學到很多東西。即便他們的啟動活動確實失敗了，創業者們也應該感到驕傲；至少他們嘗試去實現成功。并不是每個人都會確實的工作崗位上走出來，成立他們自己的公司以希望改善他們的生活。從商業成就上講，這本身就使得那些人高于大部分普通人。沒有一個商業人士有一個完美無瑕的事業生涯。一個人怎樣面對失敗是將其同其同事區別開的一個重要指標。不幸的是，這堂課只能通過經驗來學會。