"It's always too early to quit."
Do these recent book titles ring any bells?
How about this one, a best seller 50 years ago?
Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking
Would you believe a Harvard Business School publication with the following description?
"This chapter provides examples of why determination and resilience, for
either a company or an individual, should not be overlooked as
important factors in producing successful business outcomes."
That blurb refers to a chapter from
What Were They Thinking?: Unconventional Wisdom about Management, by Jeffrey Pfeffer
Is there a simple name for the focused intent, and the vision, and the determination, and the resilience - for the refusal to lose? Yes.
MOXIE. It resists precise definition, but is clearly observable in those who have it. We know it when we see it.
How much do you want it? How hard will you work? How long will you keep fighting? Do you have enough MOXIE?
Thanks, by the way, for the headline quotation, to Norman Vincent Peale. It really is, after all, always too early to quit.
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