In the classic book ‘Think and Grow Rich’ by Napolean Hill, I was struck by the following sentence:
‘More than 500 of the most successful men this country has ever known told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had over-taken them.’
That means that they pushed beyond defeat to achieve success. The majority of us will simply quit when we are defeated forgetting that ‘It’s always darkest before the dawn’.
Napolean Hill relates the story of the gold miner who struck gold but quit when the vein of gold ran out. The scrap dealer who bought his machinery employed a mining engineer who calculated that they had stopped drilling just 3 feet from the fault line where the vein of gold continued. The scrap dealer made a fortune.
However, the original gold miner who quit learnt from his mistake and went on to be a top producer in the life insurance industry by never taking ‘no’ for an answer.
I happen to have a free digital copy of Napolean Hills book ‘Think and Grow Rich’. If you would like a copy, go to my ‘Contact’ page and drop me an email with ‘Think and Grow Rich’ in the email title.
Comments
Powered by Facebook Comments