Scraped Arms By Milton Hershey

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Scraped arms, a bruised leg, a lonely five-year old boy sprawled out in the road with his bike half suspended on the grass. Keep on trying. Spinning wheels, laughing children, and wind blowing through their hair. Lesson Leaned. The earliest lesson I learned in my life was to persevere and try again. Weather it be learning how to ride a bike or achieving high honors after overcoming a learning disability; It is essential for me to tell the entire world to try again when they fail. All good success stories have their preceding story of misstep. Milton Hershey started three candy companies that all failed before he struck at gold with Hershey’s Chocolate. In addition Bill Gates, the richest man in america, watched his first company Traf-O-Data

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