Excerpt taken from Og Mandino’s The Greatest Salesman in the World Part II The End of the Story Part 2

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Now I know that patience and time can do more than even strength and passion. The years of frustration

are ready to be harvested. All that I have managed to accomplish, and all that I hope to accomplish, has

been and will be by that plodding, patient, persevering process which builds the ant heap, particle by

particle, thought by thought, step by step.

Success, when it comes overnight, often departs with the dawn. I am prepared, now, for a lifetime of

happiness because I have finally recognized a powerful secret hidden in the years that treated me so

harshly. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery we make of what is

false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true and every fresh experience points out some form of

error which we shall afterward carefully avoid. The path I walked, often dampened by my tears, has not

been a wasted journey.

Preparedness

When opportunity knocks, you have to be ready just to answer, but to apply tons of effort to making your chance happen.

When you get your shot don't wait on someone else to pull the wagon. If you wait on people to pull your wagon they will all stand and look at the wagon with you.

"Be the change you want to see."