Successful - also if u can persevere

One recurring principle in personal development is perseverance — the ability to persist in an undertaking in spite of counterinfluences, opposition

This brings to mind Steve Job’s success story at Apple Inc:

At 30, Steve Jobs was fired from Apple in a very public falling out; he persevered and started two more companies, NeXT and Pixar. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now one of the world’s most successful animation studio. NeXT was bought by Apple, which saw Steve’s return to Apple, and the technology he developed at NeXT is now at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance.

As much as there are proponents of perseverance, there are as many which advocates “quit while you’re ahead.” One example would be Eugene O’Kelly, Ex-CEO of KPMG.

Since young, Eugene O’Kelly had aspired to be a great baseball player. He tried very hard at it, but never really made it great. At 14, he finally quit his aspiration to become a great baseball player and later became an accountant. 30 years on, this pivotal decision that changed his life, allowed him to become the CEO of one of America’s Big Four.

When Is It a Good Time to Quit

* For Steve Jobs, if he had quit too early, then he would not have stuck around long enough to achieve the success that he commands today.

* In the case of Eugene O’Kelly, if he had stuck to his aspirations till the end, then he would have probably ended up only as a mediocre baseball player, not a CEO.

n like this many more stories r there, bt the crux is lyk - Perseverance is the one key to success :)

For Steve Jobs, he was really passionate about technology and he possesses the talent in developing technology. His reason for failure then was choosing a wrong partner to run Apple, who later ousted Steve from Apple. That was an unfavorable circumstance. To a certain extend, it was also his lack of influencing skills to garner support from the board of directors, which is an experience issue that he overcame through the years.

For Eugene O’Kelly, his failure to become a great baseball player was due to intrinsic gaps – even though Eugene was passionate about baseball, he was not talented at it. His real talent lay in analytical work, dealing with numbers and Business which he discovered later in his life.