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How to Handle Rejection as an Entrepreneur

2019

10 Ways to Deal with Rejection as an Entrepreneur .

17:47 min

Jack Ma Explains How Entrepreneurs Should Deal with Rejection

Rejection should be treated as an opportunity, Ma said, as if everybody initially agrees with your vision or service, then “there is no opportunity.”

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Alexandra Gibbs
2019
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3 Reasons Why Rejection Is an Entrepreneur’s Best Friend

When you hear the word “no,” don’t take it personally. Instead, embrace it and improve.

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Hillel Fuld
2021
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Stories of Rejection from 8 of the World’s Most Successful Entrepreneurs and Leaders

These innovators share how they learned from their setbacks.

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Nina Zipkin
2018
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The Rejection that Changed My Life: 25+ Powerful Women on Being Let Down, Turning It Around, and Burning It Up at Work

Rejections don’t go on your résumé, but they are part of every successful person’s career. All of us will apply for jobs that we don’t get and have ambitions that aren’t fulfilled, because that is part of being a working person, part of pushing oneself to the next step professionally.

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Jessica Bacal
2021
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How I Built This: The Unexpected Paths to Success from the World’s Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs

Based on the highly acclaimed NPR podcast, How I Built This with Guy Raz, this book offers priceless insights and inspiration from the world’s top entrepreneurs on how to start, launch, and build a successful venture.

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Guy Raz
2025
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Rejection Is Part of Entrepreneurship. Here’s How to Handle It.

Successful entrepreneurs say “no” to most offers. Those are exactly the people you’re trying to do business with.

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Kimanzi Constable
2018
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How Artists Work with Rejection, a Constant Part of the Arts World

What do actors, writers and other artists, and psychologists and therapists, say about this common experience of rejection–and how to better deal with it?

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Douglas Eby
2015
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‘I Allow Myself a Mini-Wallow’: How to Handle Rejection in the Arts

No matter how talented you are, if you work in the creative arts, you’ll likely experience rejection—whether it’s losing a job, or getting your ideas, art, funding applications, or pitches turned down.

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Abby Young-Powell
2018
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Rejection and Criticism for Creatives

Criticism and even rejection don’t just “make us stronger.” They actually can embolden our creative ideas and output. But how do you accept criticism and rejection in a positive way?

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Jeffrey Davis
2016
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Embracing Your Inner Critic: Turning Self-Criticism into a Creative Asset

The inner critic. It whispers, whines, and needles us into place. It checks our thoughts, controls our behavior, and inhibits action. It thinks it is protecting us from being disliked, hurt, or abandoned.

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Hal Stone, Sidra Stone
1993
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Criticism and Rejection