On Wings of Eagles

by Ken Follett

He did just one thing superbly well: pick the right man, give him the resources, motivate him, then leave him alone to do the job.

The motto of EDS’s

recruiters was: Eagles Don’t Flock—You Have to Find Them One at a Time.

But if you go through life worrying about all the bad things that can happen, you soon convince yourself that it’s best to do nothing at all.”

He succeeded—as he would many times during later life—because he was too dumb to know it was impossible.

He realized that he had never known the meaning of freedom until he lost it.

If you go through life thinking about all the bad things that can happen, you soon talk yourself into doing nothing at all. Concentrate on the problems that can be solved. The chips are on the table and the wheel is in spin. The last game has begun.

He recalled the proverb: success has a thousand fathers, but failure is an orphan.