Persistence: Page 6

Starting a Business

This Eyewear Startup Was Turned Away by 10 Factories. Two Years Later, Its Frames Will Be in 500 Stores.

Frameri is a Cincinnati-based eyewear company that wants consumers to never throw out their frames.

Making a Change

Pop Music, American Authors and Small Wins

Tiny victories may be fleeting, but they leave a residue of success that can change the way you approach everything after.

Leadership

Mark Cuban: Business Is the Ultimate Sport

Even professional athletes take time off and know they will retire.

Growing a Business

That Abrupt Growth Spurt You're Experiencing Is Entrepreneurial Puberty

The single most significant reason a business succeeds is that an entrepreneur worked at long enough.

Living

Purpose Is Created Through Hard Work

Persistence can change your circumstances, but it also changes you.

Thought Leaders

6 Characteristics of Resourceful People That Bring Them Success

Resourcefulness is the ability to recognize opportunity, even when it is camouflaged by a thicket of challenges.

Thought Leaders

The 10 Traits That Define Entrepreneurial Success

All entrepreneurs have some of the elements of success but those who achieve the most work to cultivate all 10.

Thought Leaders

The 10 Traits You Must Cultivate to Achieve Highly Ambitious Goals

First comes the desire for success, then comes the hard work of molding yourself into the person who has what is required to succeed.

Growing a Business

The 10 Life-Changing Gifts of the Entrepreneurial Struggle

Personal growth is the reward for doing the work required to build something of value.

Thought Leaders

How Long Should You Push Before Giving Up?

A successful entrepreneur reflects on how naivety kept him going forward although things were really rough.

Growing a Business

4 Ways to Overcome Your Unreasonable Fears

Your fear of running across a busy highway is good. If you're afraid to seize an opportunity, that's a problem.

Innovation

7 Ways to Ignite Innovation and Surpass Your Competition

The ferocity of business competition demands innovation and risk taking, both of which require a state of mind that can be cultivated.

Growing a Business

Are You Quitting Too Soon or Staying With It Too Long?

Entrepreneurs are advised to embrace failure but never give up. Recognizing which to do when is tough in real life.

Thought Leaders

Why 'Grit' May Be Everything for Success

Lack of grit -- call it persistence -- is the entrepreneurship killer.

Thought Leaders

Be Ready to Pounce When You Finally Hear 'Yes' for the First Time

The people who succeed as entrepreneurs are the ones who could not be worn down no matter how many times they heard "no.''