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Passion

Many successful companies were the unintended consequence of a founder
indulging his passion. A prominent example is General Electric, whose origins
in the late 1800s flowed directly from founder Thomas Edison’s zealous
preoccupation with inventing the incandescent lamp. A 13-year-old passionate
hobbyist programmer named Bill Gates grew up to cofound Microsoft and
become the world’s richest person. Benjamin Franklin, a multifaceted hobbyist,
parlayed his passion for reading into a thriving career as a printer. The poet
Robert Frost, like so many of the quotable luminaries below, illuminated the link
between passion and business achievement when he said, “My goal in life is to
unite my avocation with my vocation, as my two eyes make one in sight.”

If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way
of life you should seriously consider.

—Joyce Brothers, psychologist and advice columnist (from her book Positive Plus: The Practical
Plan for Liking Yourself Better)

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and
vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, “This is the
real me,” and when you have found that attitude, follow it.