I totally agree with you friend. Persistence pays
Success isn’t a first time type of deal. Many people, if not most people, will fail at least once before they become successful. A lot of those failures are caused by the simple concept of learning as you go.
They may have realized that the idea they had for a business just wasn’t quite there, or they realize that the effort they were putting into their goals was not efficient enough. The failure causes them to learn and grow, therefore becoming better for the next time they try again.
If people were to be discouraged by their first failures in life, they’d struggle to achieve success, simply because they wouldn’t be growing enough in order to achieve the knowledge needed.