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Rhinoceros Success… 31 Years Later. | Scott Robert Alexander.com

Wow!  It was 31 years ago this month that I came out with “Rhinoceros Success”.  I was recently asked if I would change anything in the book.

Why?  What changed?  Circumstances have certainly changed, but the principles of success have stayed the same and always will.  You still have to have the desire to succeed.  Without the will, it ain’t gonna happen.

You still have to take action.  You gotta charge.  Nothing will happen until you do.  It is probably the biggest obstacle to succeeding at anything.  It is easier to do nothing.  That will never change.  In fact, the government is making it easier to do nothing and is actually encouraging mediocrity.

Persistence is still essential.  You still need to have two-inch-thick skin to put up with the setbacks, the obstacles, the disappointments, the roadblocks – the torpedoes.   The attitude of never giving up can overcome a lot of handicaps like lack of education, no money, or 100 other reasons people come up with to justify their failure.

No, I would not change a single word, but I might add one to reflect the times:  harder. i know a guy who has been on unemplyemnt for 2 years, very very over weight, and keeping his fingers crossed that the bebefits for unemployed get passed… i asked him who gonna pay for that? he said he felt he was getting all the taxes he ever paid back by getting it… i said goo for you, how about those 1000s other who have the same attitude? where is the money coming from ? the working class u are striving to make it all meet by CHARGING and tring to suceed… yes is harder when we have to support folks unemployed for over two years and they stand with thier hands out as the gov. hands it out…. ouch… harder by far..but im not giving up and ill pay my way only because i know GOD is the BIGGEST RHINO OF ALL !!!! TY SCOTT LOVE U L.