When opportunity comes, it often appears in a different form, and from a different direction than one expects. That is one of the tricks of opportunity. It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity. ~ Napoleon Hill … [Read more...]
Think & Grow Rich Thursday 08/28/14
You can get nowhere without persistence - a fact which cannot be to often repeated. The difference between persistence and lack of it is the same as the difference between wishing for a thing and positively determining to get it. To become a person of initiative you must form the habit of aggressively and persistently following the object of your definite chief aim until you acquire it, whether this requires one year or twenty years. You might as well have no Definite Chief Aim as to have such … [Read more...]
Think & Grow Rich Thursday! 08/14/14
The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on despite all opposition until they attain their goal. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel. ~ Napoleon Hill … [Read more...]