How does one know when to quit, stick, or pivot? Let's hear from the experts:
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
“Extraordinary benefits accrue to the tiny minority of people who are able to push just a tiny bit longer than most.”
“Quitters never win and winners never quit.”
“Never, never, never, never —
in nothing, great or small, large or petty —
never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense.”
“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit.
There’s no point in being a damn fool about it.”
“Winners quit all the time.
They just quit the right stuff at the right time.”
“You’ve gotta know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em.
Know when to walk away, know when to run.”
“The people who are the best in the world specialize at getting really good at the questions they don’t know.”
“Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
“Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth…
that there is no end in nature,
but every end is a beginning.”
“Rise and rise again and again ...
until lambs have become lions
and the rule of darkness is no more.”
“I have fought the good fight,
I have finished the race,
I have kept the faith.”
“Being able to persist is not the most important thing –
the ability to start over is.”
“The greatest accomplishment is not in never failing,
but in rising again after you fall.”
Life has endless ways of presenting its journeymen with contradictions that beg resolution, and/but gives little clues in the ways of solving them. ‘Nuff said.
References:
- Godin, Seth (2007). The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick). Penguin Group.
- Ries, Eric (2011). The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses. Crown Business.
- Horowitz, Ben (2014). The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers. Harper Business.
- Bass, Thomas (2000). The Predictors: How a Band of Maverick Physicists Used Chaos Theory to Trade Their Way to a Fortune on Wall Street. Holt.