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Do You Have What
It Takes To Be Successful?
By Sarah J Doyle Excerpt from "How
To Start Your Own Business"
The great desire to be successful
as always been a fact of life! The word "success" means different things
to different people. For some, to be successful is to have your own
business, so you don't have to answer to anyone but yourself. To others,
success is climbing to the top of the corporate ladder, while others
visualize success as "being the best" - best at the sport they are
involved in, being best at the job they work at, etc.
Answer the following questions
TRUE or FALSE, then check your answers against the opinions that follow.
You may not recognize all of the names quoted, but you can be assured
that all of the people, whether familiar to you or not, were extremely
successful in their own way.
1. Success requires mastery of the
endeavor you set for yourself.
2. Everyone should realize his or
her limitations and try to go no farther.
3. It is very important to try to
please everybody.
4. One should believe in himself
or herself.
5. Success is achieved by being
single-minded in purpose.
6. Most successful people tend to
be unemotional.
7. Act successful, even if you're
not.
8. An important element needed for
success is to love what you do.
9. The ability to handle the
people with whom you work is a skill leading to success.
10. Be sure you are right, then go
ahead.
The answers listed below are the
opinions of those people who are quoted.
1. TRUE. "The way to do is to be."
(Lao Tzu)
2. FALSE. "We can do anything we
want to do if we stick to it long enough." (Helen Keller)
3. FALSE. "I cannot give you the
formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which
is to try to please everybody." (Herbert Bayard Swope)
4. TRUE. "Self trust is the first
secret of success." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
5. TRUE. "I believe the true road
to pre-eminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that
line." (Andrew Carnegie)
6. FALSE. "He has achieved success
who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much." (Mrs. A. J. Stanley)
7. TRUE. "Act as if it were
impossible to fail." (Dorothea Brande)
8. TRUE. "The first thing to do is
to fall in love with your work." (Sister Mary Lauretta).
9. TRUE. "The ability to handle
men is the most valuable thing in the business world. I will pay higher
for that than for any other qualification." (John D. Rockefeller)
10. TRUE. "Be sure you are right;
then go ahead." (Davie Crockett)
About the author:
Sarah J. Doyle is author of over
25 business, sewing and how-to books and owner of 7 business, sewing and
craft websites. Visit
http://YouCanWorkAtHomeNow.com for more tips, free articles and
how-to information on work at home careers and opportunities. See
http://SarahJDoyle.com
for additional articles and information.
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