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Determination and Focus
Determination and focus may be the most essential characteristics for a
successful businessperson to have. Otherwise, he will be destined to abandon his
goal, surrendering to the inevitable setbacks, frustration, and, ultimately,
exhaustion common in climbing the corporate ladder or developing a business.
Management and employees can hit loggerheads. Strategies go awry. Suppliers
come up short. Business partners don’t shoulder their load. Expect to encounter
fierce rivals, fickle customers, and hesitant bankers. In short, be resolute. Muster
the drive to stay the course.
It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.
—Confucius, Chinese philosopher
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
—Winston Churchill, former prime minister of the United Kingdom
