"Successful people don't have fewer problems, just different ways of looking at them. It all goes back to mind-set. How do you look at the problems you face - are they fences or are they hurdles? If you view them as fences, you allow them to contain you and they become excuses for inaction. But if you view problems as hurdles, then you have choices. You can go over them or under them or around them. It doesn't matter how you get by that hurdle; it just matters that you do. Each time you get by another hurdle, it strengthens you for the next one. In a corporate setting, (or school setting) it's essential that leaders (or teachers) not allow their employees (or students) to make excuses; eventually they'll stop constructing fences and start jumping hurdles. They learn to deal with and overcome their problems, and that leads to success." Dr. Ben Carson