"Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success."
"Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured. Yes, you can wait around for the right set of circumstances to fall into place and then leap into action but you can also create those set of circumstances on your own. In so doing, you manufacture your own opportunities. This has helped me immeasurably."
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Source: Biz Stone (2014). “Things A Little Bird Told Me”, p.16, Pan Macmillan
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