1 THREE FEET FROM GOLD
This story has been taken from the best self-help book ever written i.e THINK AND GROW RICH written by NAPOLEAN HILL. This book generally says that persistence and burning desire is the key to success. Many millionaires have taken reference from the book to reach their SUCCESS.
ONE of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat. Every person is guilty of this mistake at one time or another.
An uncle of R.U. Darby was caught by the fever of gold in goldrush days and went west to DIG AND GROW RICH. He had never that more gold was has been mined from the brains of men than the has ever taken from the earth. He staked a claim and went to work with pick and shovel. The going was hard, but his lust for gold was definite.
machinery to bring the ore to the surface. Quietly, he covered up the mine, retraced hisfootsteps to his home in Williamsburg, Maryland, told his relatives and a few neighbors ofthe "strike." They got together money for the needed machinery, had it shipped. The uncleand Darby went back to work the mine.The first car of ore was mined, and shipped to a smelter. The returns proved they had one ofthe richest mines in Colorado! A few more cars of that ore would clear the debts. Then wouldcome the big killing in profits.Down went the drills! Up went the hopes of Darby and Uncle! Then something happened!The vein of gold ore disappeared! They had come to the end of the rainbow, and the pot ofgold was no longer there! They drilled on, desperately trying to pick up the vein again-all tono avail.Finally, they decided to QUIT. They sold the machinery to a junk man for a few hundreddollars, and took the train back home. Some "junk" men are dumb, but not this one! Hecalled in a mining engineer to look at the mine and do a little calculating. The engineeradvised that the project had failed, because the owners were not familiar with "fault lines."His calculations showed that the vein would be found JUST THREE FEET FROM WHERETHE DARBYS HAD STOPPED DRILLING! That is exactly where it was found!The "Junk" man took millions of dollars in ore from the mine, because he knew enough toseek expert counsel before giving up. Most of the money which went into the machinery wasprocured through the efforts of R. U. Darby, who was then a very young man. The moneycame from his relatives and neighbors, because of their faith in him. He paid back everydollar of it, although he was years in doing so.Long afterward, Mr. Darby recouped his loss many times over, when he made the discoverythat DESIRE can be transmuted into gold. The discovery came after he went into thebusiness of selling life insurance.Remembering that he lost a huge fortune because he STOPPED three feet from gold, Darbyprofited by the experience in his chosen work, by the simple method of saying to himself, "Istopped three feet from gold, but I will never stop because men say `no' when I ask them tobuy insurance."Darby is one of a small group of fewer than fifty men who sell more than a million dollars inlife insurance annually. He owes his "stickability" to the lesson he learned from his"quitability" in the gold mining business.
Before success comes in any man's life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and,perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to dois to QUIT. That is exactly what the majority of men do.More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat hadovertaken them. Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning.It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.
