Never Fear Failure Jobs was fired by the successor he picked. Yet, he didn't lose hope because as he said, 'I still loved what I was doing.' He picked up his life's lost pieces and got back to work following his passion. This is what Jobs said when asked about his feelings after being ousted from Apple. "I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life." Over the past eight years of my investing life, I have rather frequently - and on occasion, quite spectacularly - failed. But that is something I've always expected to happen. No one really knows what is going to happen in the future. This is especially true when it comes to the stock markets. So why pretend otherwise? I believe if you really want to succeed as an investor, first expect to fail expect to be wrong. And then, when you really go wrong, don't waste time laying the blame on others. Instead, collect the broken pieces, fix them, and start investing again - with your mistakes not behind you, but right beside you as hard lessons you've learnt on investing.