Sam was distinguished by his loud obnoxious sarcastic mouth and little else. It’s too bad that Sarcastic Sam would many years later discover that employers weren’t exactly looking for Big Shot Obnoxious Professional Big Mouths. Sam would have to fall back on his other great skills of broom pushing and box stacking. But hey we’re getting ahead of ourselves.

Gabby stunned for a minute reached over to pick up his books he had dropped. Gabby was a bright kid who it always seemed was bumping into things. Of course other kids ridiculed him for this and he was thus nicknamed, “Gabby Goat Butt of Every Joke!”

Like we said Gabby was a bright kid but seemed scatter brained and lacked focus. One day his interest was robots next was exploring Mars.

Then one day a new science teacher rode into town (in a Ford Mustang). Gabby was really attracted to new science teacher Mr. Lars Cranium – not in a physical but intellectual sense..

I have been involved in this business for a number of years and I have seen people come and go from literally all walks of life, education levels, backgrounds, etc. I have worked with medical doctors, engineers, scientists and people who were only a step above being illiterate.

And while certain skills are beneficial, none are a predictor of success. But I can tell you what is biggest predictor of success, and also in many cases a predictor of failure. I am never 100 percent right - if I was I would put everything I have in Stock Market, however one thing has always stuck out with me. You see I did an in depth analysis several years ago now (consulting a number of successful people) of what made some people successful and what made others basically quit or fail.

And here is what I determined to be true in almost all cases. And this in my observation doesn't just apply to people in this industry but successful people everywhere. The people who were successful simply were going to figure out a way to make their business work.

They believed they were going to be successful.

They weren't about to accept no as an answer. No matter how many times they heard "No" or failed they got back up and kept on going. It didn't matter how much they knew or how much experience they had they simply weren't going to fail. Failure was not an option, if one thing didn't work they would try something else.