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Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in
my tenacity.

—Louis Pasteur, chemist and investor of pasteurization

I quickly learned that if I kept at it and plowed right through the rejections I
would eventually get somebody to buy my wares.

—Charles R. Schwab, founder of Charles Schwab Corp.

Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success.

—James Parton, author

Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things … fail because we lack
concentration—the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the
proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?

—John D. Rockefeller, industrialist, cofounder of Standard Oil Co., and philanthropist

Men in general judge more by appearances than by reality. All men have eyes,
but few have the gift of penetration.

—Machiavelli, Italian Renaissance political philosopher