Why you shouldn't trust success stories

Great read especially for this crowd.

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I felt this was one of the most valuable sentences in the whole article.

Of course, you can, and you MUST, take inspiration from her encouraging story. But to make it work, you need to work with your own circumstances.

This, this this! I see this happen all the time, “The next big success” and a year or two later you get email about them closing their doors.

However, according to The Kauffman Foundation’s report, only about 63% of Inc. 5000 companies continue to be in business five or more years after making it onto the list.