For me, this is the money quote as I pasted it into my fortune file I knew there were a lot of other people as intelligent as I was, and who had all [the

For me, this is the money quote as I pasted it into my fortune file I knew there were a lot of other people as intelligent as I was, and who had all [the same] advantages [as me]. The only way to be successful then would be to gain a slight advantage over them - I had to work and train harder than they did, I had to get to know more people than they did, I had to learn more about more things that they did. We started off equals, but at some point all the effort I put in started to pay off, and where they stopped improving themselves, I continued, and I got better and better. Where they were afraid to try new things because they would fail, I tried and I got better and knew more, till I was good enough for the job I hold now. I recently figured out that compounding interest works for personal development and business just as well as it works for money.