Colonel Sanders, at age 65, had a beat-up car and $100 check from Social Security as assets. He realized he had to improve his position. He remembered his mother?s friend chicken recipe and went out selling. How many doors did he have to knock before he got his first order? It is estimated that he had knocked on more than a thousand doors before he got his first order.

How many of us wait till the 10th try before we quit and then say; ?I really tried as hard as I could!?

As a young cartoonist, Walt Disney faced many rejections from newspaper editors who said he had no talent. One day a minister at a church hired him to draw some cartoons. Disney was working out of a small rodent-infested shed near the church. Seeing a small mouse inspired him to draw a new cartoon. That was the start of Mickey Mouse and we all know the rest is history.

Successful people become successful not because they do things differently. No! They become high flyers only because they do the small things that matter in great ways and never give up despite the challenges and obstacles that stand in their way.

Can you imagine where we?d be without the invention of Lee De Forest. He invented the triode tube and in 1913 was charged by the district attorney for using fraudulent means to mislead the public into buying stocks in his company by claiming that he could transmit the human voice across the Atlantic. He was publicly humiliated. Today we know he was right to have made that claim.

Looking into history, you?ll find that the world?s greatest success stories have a life tinged with great failures but instead of quitting, they go on despite the odds because all they see is the one purpose in which they are in pursuit. But people don?t see the failures. They see only the success and forget that every overnight success has been in the making for years.

It is not about getting lucky. It is not about just being at the right place at the right time. It is simply about deciding not to quit. Successful people understand the words of Christopher Morley; "Big shots are only little shots that keep shooting."