Don't give up!

[Deborah Johnson]

"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it! Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it-but all that had gone before."

Jacob Riis

[Andrew Ellenberg]

It's a lot like the notion of an "overnight" success most of which are decades in the making. Look at Yahoo! and Google. Not even a decade ago Yahoo! was considered the undisputed champion of search. They were plastered on the cover of every business magazine. All over TV. They brought the fear of god to "old" media giants. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, Google knocks them off their throne and makes them a has been. That's because the people at the "invisible giant" we're quietly building their brilliant business brick by brick, one day at a time, until finally their efforts reached a critical mass, a kind of "tipping point" if you will. It must have been hard to bite their tongue, stay under the radar and bide their time while their former arch rival got all the spotlight!