Mastery — Quote 68
“What really makes successful entrepreneurs is not the nature of their idea, or the university they went to, but their actual character—their willingness to adapt their idea and take advantage of possibilities they had not first imagined. This is precisely the trait, fluidity of mind that Graham had identified in himself and in other inventors. The other essential character trait was supreme tenacity.”
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Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it’s the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.
it is an emotional quality that separates those who master a field from the many who simply work at a job.