To illustrate point that it is always too early to give up, this article includes three well-known success stories.

Ray Kroc: At age of 52, Ray Kroc had suffered for years from arthritis and diabetes. Although Ray had poor health, and his bladder and most of his thyroid had been removed, he never stopped believing in himself and his biggest idea. It led to start of McDonald's in 1955. By 1961, 228 McDonald's restaurants had been established and sales had reached $37 million. When Ray passed away in 1984, there were 7,500 McDonald's outlets around world. The number of outlets and sales are still growing.

Ray Kroc was described as a simple man with a simple plan: 1. Never give up 2. Always persevere 3. Don't forget part 1 of plan

I set off at crack of dawn to avoid rush hour traffic and get to my destination as early as possible. There were very few cars on local roads at that time in morning and no pedestrians that I noticed. The road I was on seemed almost deserted, except for when I reached a straight section of tree-lined avenue not far from home.

There in centre of road ahead sat a little grey squirrel.

I suspect that little chap was quite shocked to see my car. He jumped up in surprise and began rapidly looking this way and that. Then he began what could have been mistaken for a little dance. A few steps to left, a few steps to right, and repeat. He really couldn't make his mind up which way to run to escape. Should he go left or should he go right?

In fact, he was moving back and forth so much, I had to swerve several times before I managed to hit him!

OK, cheap laugh! Well, it made me laugh anyway. I'm sorry, I just couldn't resist temptation. Must be my warped sense of humour.

I promise you, I never ran him down I slowed down enough to let him safely escape. The last time I saw him he was fit and well, and running up a tree. Honest your honour!

The little critter knew he had to do something to survive, he just couldn't decide which direction to go.