The second Success Story which I would like to share is the famous Three Feet from Gold story- Mr Darby. Back in the gold rush days, Mr Darby was caught in the gold fever. After a lot of hard work, he found a vein of ore, so he covered up his find and came back home to raise money for the machinery that he would need to bring the ore to the surface.As soon as he raised enough money, he traveled back to the site to resume digging. Things started well and before long, he had enough to clear debts. He was excited, thinking that everything from here on would be profit. Then the supply of gold stopped. The vein of ore had disappeared.
he kept on digging, but found nothing. After a while, he quit in frustration and sold the machinery to a junk man for a few hundred dollars. After he went home in disappointment, the junk man called in a mining engineer who checked the mine and calculated that there was a vein of gold just three feet from where Mr Darby had stopped digging.The junk man went on to make millions from the mine. Darby returned home, paid back everyone who had lent him money and was determined to learn from his mistake in quitting too soon. He went on to become a very successful insurance salesman, more than recouping what he would have made from the gold mine.
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