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> There is no such thing as a guarantee of success. It's true there is no guarantee of success. But if you quit early there would be only guarantee failure.
by jerryhuang100 14y ago
> There is no such thing as a guarantee of success.
It's true there is no guarantee of success. But if you quit early there would be only guarantee failure.
- simula67 14y agoTrue. There are many great examples, but to take only one consider Larry Page and Sergey Brin who tried and failed to sell PageRank to Yahoo, Altavista etc. The world does not remember them as two engineers who failed to sell their novel idea to BigCo and make a lot of money, but as the founders of a great company called Google. You can fail as many times as you like. You only have to win once and the world will remember you for it. Only way to guarantee a defeat is to quit. If you can keep at it, you probably should.
- chaz 14y ago> But if you quit early The problem is we never know when "early" is. It could be past our patience, financial means, career window, or lifetime.
- ankitml 14y agoI would say sometimes qutting is good option. Not absolute quitting, but quitting from current plan. Being open to bending and open to modifications in the 'way to success'. I remember Bruce Lee said, "Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend."
- greghinch 14y agoIf you quit while you still have passion, it's too early. If you spend your life following a passion, and never achieve "success", was that a life wasted? What is the alternative?
- cousin_it 14y agoThe same is true for the lottery, if you don't buy a lottery ticket, you're guaranteed not to win. But that doesn't prove you should spend all your money on lottery tickets.