How to Climb the Startup Mountain | Why Most People Quit When Only 20% of the Way There - A Knowledge Bomb
Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS
Clay Clark
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
“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 do is 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 had overtaken them.” - Napoleon Hill (The best-selling author of Think and Grow Rich)
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| 0:00.0 | Grab the duct tape and mentally prepare yourself, or yet another mind-expanding knowledge bomb from America's number one business coach Clay Clark. |
| 0:14.0 | Boom, boom, boom, and boom. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome back to another exciting edition of the Thrive Time Show on your radio and podcast. |
| 0:24.0 | Download an Eric Chop on today's show. We are talking about how to climb the startup mountain. |
| 0:30.0 | Why most people quit only 20% of the way there. My friend, your mom and dad and a construction business. How long did they run that thing? |
| 0:39.0 | Lives right around 32 years, I believe, 33 years. |
| 0:42.0 | Do you remember the bottom, like when it was the absolute worst? Because they had a lot of high points, too. |
| 0:48.0 | Can you think of a moment where you go? That was rough. |
| 0:51.0 | My parents were great people. I got to see the spectrum from like nothing. I used to eat mustard sardines as a kid. |
| 0:57.0 | That was like, that was what was good. Me and my dad would sit down and eat mustard-covered sardines. |
| 1:01.0 | But then I got to graduate college. |
| 1:03.0 | Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. You ate mustard when you ate? |
| 1:06.0 | I bought some just the other day to try them and they are disgusting. |
| 1:10.0 | No, I've never had sardines. We're just looking at them. It makes me call them mustard helps. |
| 1:15.0 | Okay, so I'll put it that way. The muscle helps. |
| 1:17.0 | But then I also got to graduate college with two degrees debt free. |
| 1:20.0 | Nice. Thanks to my parents being able to afford to go to school. |
| 1:22.0 | Okay. So definitely got to see all the ups, all the downs, all the late nights, all the... |
| 1:26.0 | Everything that goes on behind the scenes. Many stories. |
| 1:29.0 | I have a little quote I put in the bathroom next to the urinal. |
| 1:32.0 | Yes. |
| 1:33.0 | In the offices? |
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