What tenacity will do for you
Look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock , perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it . Yet at the hundred-andfirst blow it will split in two , and I know it was not the last blow that did it , but all that had gone before ” -Jacob A . Riis
Great accomplishments do not come easy and greatness is not attained on a silver platter . Beneath that global brand and that remarkable feat , are men and women who put their minds to work and put their shoulders to the wheel amidst significant odds . The tenacity of these persons yields these enviable dividends . Your dreams and aspirations are definitely within reach , yet the route towards the same can immobilize the faint-hearted .
You will need to set your gaze in the direction of your goals and put in the much needed work to ensure they see the light of day . Diffcult moments will by all means come and the temptation to quit will be the more alluring in the face of setbacks , failures , monumental challenges and sometimes the absence of the minutest signals of progress being made .
It was B . C . Forbes who once noted ; “ History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed . They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeat ”. Walt Disney , the billionaire cartoonist and entrepreneur , dropped out of school at age 16 and was fired from his job at age 18 . The first two businesses he started failed . He went bankrupt five times . His pitch for the cartoon character , Micky Mouse was rejected as much as 300 times , some sources claim .
Jack Ma , the billionaire , founder and president of Alibaba Group was saddled with the misfortune of being turned down from enrolment at Harvard on ten consecutive occasions . At one point in his life , he found it diffcult landing a job , after scores of job
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