One of the most common causes of failure is the
habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat. Every person is
guilty of this mistake at one time or another. An uncle of R. U. Darby was
caught by the ‘gold fever’ in the gold rush days, and went west to DIG AND GROW
RICH.
He had never heard that more gold has been mined
from the brains of men than has ever been taken from the earth. He staked a
claim and went to work with pick and shovel. The going was hard, but his lust
for gold was definite. After weeks of labor, he was rewarded by the discovery
of the shining ore. He needed machinery to bring the ore to the surface.
Quietly, he covered up the mine, retraced his footsteps to his home in
Williamsburg, Maryland, told his relatives and a few neighbors of the ‘strike.’
They got together money for the needed machinery, and had it shipped.
The uncle and Darby went back to work the mine. The
first car of ore was mined, and shipped to a smelter. The returns proved they
had one of the richest mines in Colorado! A few more cars of that ore would
clear the debts. Then would come the big killing in profits. Down went the
drills! Up went the hopes of Darby and Uncle! Then something happened! The vein
of gold ore disappeared! They had come to the end of the rainbow, and the pot
of gold was no longer there! They drilled on, desperately trying to pick up the
vein again — all to no avail.
Finally, they decided to QUIT. They sold the
machinery to a junk man for a few hundred dollars, and took the train back
home. Some ‘junk’ men are dumb, but not this one! He called in a mining
engineer to look at the mine and do a little calculating. The engineer advised
that the project had failed, because the owners were not familiar with ‘fault
lines.’ His calculations showed that the vein would be found JUST THREE FEET
FROM WHERE THE DARBYS HAD STOPPED DRILLING! That is exactly where it was
found!
The ‘Junk’ man took millions of dollars in ore from
the mine, because he knew enough to seek expert counsel before giving up. Before
success comes in any man's life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat,
and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest
and most logical thing to do is to QUIT. That is exactly what the majority of
men do. More than five hundred of the most successful men history has ever
known, told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the
point at which defeat had overtaken them. Failure is a trickster with a keen
sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success
is almost within reach.
SOURCE: Napoleon Hill’s THINK AND
GROW RICH.
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