Will It Fly? How to Know if Your New Business Idea Has Wings…Before You Take the Leap

Chapter 15. Staying Power

	Persistence can grind an iron beam down into a needle.
	--Chinese proverb

	Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and Determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “Press On” has solved and will always solve the problems of the human race.
	--Calvin Coolidge, U S president.Broadside distributed to agents of the New York Life Insurance Company, 1932.Former President Coolidge was at the time a director of the New York Life Insurance Company.

Definition

Staying power solves the question of what happens if ...