Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no
loss of enthusiasm.
Those words were spoken by Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill,
otherwise known as Winston Churchill, one of the greatest wartime
leaders of the 20th century. A
British politician, an officer in the British army, a historian, a
writer, and an artist; Winston Churchill was a man who saw every
failure as an opportunity to do more and do it better.
Churchill was born in 1874 into aristocratic family, the Dukes of
Marlborough, a branch of the noble Spencer family. His father, Lord
Randolph Churchill, was a charismatic political leader and set an
example for Winston early on. As a young man, he served as an army
officer, where he saw a substantial amount of action in the Sudan,
Cuba, British India, and the Second Boer War. Eventually, Winston
Churchill became mildly famous as a war correspondent and began
writing and publishing books
about his campaigns.
As a natural politician, Churchill quickly rose through seats of
Parliament from 1900 to 1910. By the time 1911 rolled around, he was
appointed First Lord of the Admiralty, a post he continued into the
First World War. During this time, he became known for his emphasis on
favoring the use of airplanes in combat. He even took flying lessons
himself. Meanwhile, he launched a program to replace coal power with
oil power for military grade vehicles and equipment like submarines
and destroyers. In 1914, at the beginning of the First World War,
Churchill became involved with the development of the tank.
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