Successful people seek counsel where failures listen to opinion and that is a quote of the day.

Welcome back to the quote of the day show. I'm your host Sean Crox and the Sean Crox and dot com.

We've got Greg S. Read on the show closing out the week and I love this one because he shares a story that I think about whenever I feel like quitting.

It's the three feet from gold story from Napoleon Hill's thinking grow rich. Whenever I think about quitting, whenever the thought passes through my head, always go.

Three feet from gold because you never know how close you might be when you quit. Hey, it might have happened tomorrow.

It might have happened the next week, but if you quit, you will never know how close you were to striking gold.

And that's the thing that keeps me moving forward. Number two, something I tell people all the time, seek counsel, not opinions.

See, when I want to achieve something, I don't talk to people who have never achieved it about that thing that I want to achieve.

Like, what's the point of that? Why would I, why would I, what are they going to do? What are they going to say? They haven't done it before.

So when we do that, people always tell you all the reasons why it's not possible.

And so you talk to people who have done it before. You look for counsel.

Counsel is what people provide when they've actually done it, when they have some experience with it, when they have some expertise with it.

When you talk to those people, that's what counts. But when you're talking to people who have never done it before, you can't let that stop you.

And too often we allow opinions to stop us from doing what we want to do, taking advice from people who have never done anything.

To tell them, super passionate about this. So seek counsel, not opinions. Don't quit.

Because you never know how close you are to striking gold. Here's Greg.

I had a great mentor. His name is Charlie Tremendous Jones and he had a quote. He says that you are the same today as you'll be in five years, except for two things.

The people you meet and the books you read. It's who you hang out with. It's what you put your head that determines your character as a person.

And the time we're going to have together, I'm going to tap a little bit of both.

By the way, this is my big best-selling book called Three Feet from Gold. When I'm done, someone can take it. If you like it, I'm not selling it because it didn't sell so good.

So here's a deal. Three feet from gold. The story about a guy named R.U. Darby. He gets gold fever, but he knows nothing about gold.

He goes out west and starts digging, and sure enough, he has a little discovery. He gets excited, so he hides it and buries it.

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