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Quote: On Persistence

Why quit when success is just around the corner.

“Persistent people begin their successes where others end in failure.” Edward Eggleston I have read so many stories about successful people who were not so successful at first. To sum up what they typically tell others about the secret to their success they say, “I didn’t quit!”

It would be good for us to take a lesson from the “Don’t quit” mantra of these people. As we work at our jobs, our skills, and our projects remember that the difference between success and failure is many times just persistence.

Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.