HOW YOU RESPOND
I recently read that it isn’t failure to stumble and fall. The failure is in staying there on the floor. Success is in finding something while you’re down there to pick up with you. An illustration of this is seen in an item in a recent issue of Fortune magazine, quoting the New York Times: After his butcher shop in Brooklyn was robbed four times in one month, William Levine bought a bulletproof vest in 1980. Other business proprietors asked him where they could get a vest like his. Mr. Levine began taking orders as a sideline. Today the 32-year-old Mr. Levine is out of the butcher business and full-time president of Body Armor, International. He supplies 40 sales representatives across the country, he says, and is selling 500 to 600 vests a month.
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