"Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success."
"You have to have an emotional investment in what you're doing. If you don't love what you're doing, failure is pretty much guaranteed."
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Source: Master of 'Biz' Returns to School by Melissa Korn and Amir Efrati, The wall Street Journal, September 1, 2011.
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