Unbreakable Glass

The day of defending your present possessions is gone. From now on you are not going to worry about holding your job. Put the worry on the fellow above you holding his. From this day onward wrong things are put on the defense. You have marshaled right things for the attack. Your eyes are turned toward your strength, not your weakness. Henceforth you will wake in the morning thinking of ways to do things, rather than reasons why they can’t be done.


When Henry Ford wanted to get an unbreakable glass for his new models he wouldn’t see any of the experts. They knew too many reasons why it couldn’t be done. “Bring me eager young fellows who do not know the reasons why unbreakable glass cannot be made. Give this problem to ambitious young fellows who think nothing is impossible.” He got unbreakable glass.

- from I Dare You, by William H. Danforth, December 1985 edition, pgs 22-23.