Chris Gardner is the subject of the movie, The Pursuit of Happyness.  He was out on the street with his son, but managed to overcome adversity and become a massive success in the financial field.  Here is some of his advice:

• Do something that you love. Whatever you’re going to do is going to be tough enough. Find something that gets you so excited that the sun can’t come up early enough in the morning because you want to go do your thing
• Baby steps count, as long as you are going forward. You add them all up, and one day you look back and you’ll be surprised at where you might get to
• I was homeless, but I wasn't hopeless. I knew a better day was coming
• It’s not just my story. It’s the story of a lot of people who grew up and took a lot of crap – and decided, ‘I'm going the other way’
• I asked the guy two questions. One was, ‘What do you do?’ The second was, ‘How do you do that?’
• We bag elephants. That's our motto. We go after the big deals because it takes just as much effort to land a $500 account as it does to land a $5 million one
• I just wanted to make a million dollars. But I couldn't sing and I couldn't play ball, so I said to my mother, ‘How am I going to make a million dollars?’ And she said to me, ‘Son, if you believe you can do it, you will’
• One of the things young people always ask me about is what is the secret to success. The secret is there is no secret. It’s the basics. Blocking and tackling
• I was late once and it cost me $50,000. I figure it was cheaper to wear two watches
• The cavalry ain’t coming. You’ve got to do this yourself

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