In business, the majority succeed because knowledge and training have enabled them to take advantage of opportunities. If there is no secret of success in professional or business life, as some eminently successful men have stated, how does it come about that, of two men apparently equally gifted, one succeeds while the other does not. The great truth lies in this: thousands of men never realize their own potentiality. Certain dormant powers that lie within them are never awakened to life. The electric spark that would start the personal engine into life never touches the vital energizing power.
" Genius," said Edison, "is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration." Although some may take leave to doubt the absolute truth of this, like other aphorisms, it contains a great deal of truth. leia todo o artigo
