There is a very interesting story of a gold miner in San Francisco in eighteen-something who gave up on a gold mine a foot away from the ore. When he found out

There is a very interesting story of a gold miner in San Francisco in eighteen-something who gave up on a gold mine a foot away from the ore. When he found out, apparently his thoughts of "I might be a foot away from the ore" gave him huge amounts of grit and perseverance and he ended up getting quite rich doing chain stores.