Chapter 1. There's Always a Way to Success

 

"Life is either a daring adventure—or nothing."

 
 --Helen Keller, deaf and blind writer and lecturer
 

"I had learned, from years of experience with men, that when a man really DESIRES a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win."

 
 --Napoleon Hill, motivational business writer
 

"If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad."

 
 --Denis Waitley, motivational business writer
 

"Whenever I hear it can't be done, I know I'm close to success."

 
 --Mary Kay Ash, entrepreneur

There's Always a Way to Success

Always

Always?

Did I say that?

Always a way to success? No matter how hopeless or risky or impossible your situation seems to be?

Well, yeah, from my experience, and from the experiences of tens of thousands of successful people, that's pretty much the way it works. But only if you know how, as Star Trek's Captain Jean-Luc Picard liked to tell his crew, to "make it so."

Hi! I'm Tony Little, that hyper guy you see every time you turn on your TV set—the one with the blond ponytail and baseball cap.

I'm the fellow in the infomercial manically scissoring back and forth on my Gazelle Glider exercise machine and insisting that "You can do iiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!"

I'm also the guy who's been bellowing at you on the Home Shopping Network for several decades now, selling everything ...

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