Barbara Corcoran On Success
Rod Kurtz and Ben Craw write on AOL about New York real estate's self-made success, Barbara Corcoran (how she " took $1,000 and took on the titans of New York's legendary real-estate industry"). Corcoran's thoughts on what makes a salesperson a success:

"What every great salesperson has, that is always underestimated, is not their ability to hustle so much. It's their ability to get up after they've been hit. Handling rejection is 90 percent of what sales is all about, and the better you are about getting up quickly, and not spending too much time feeling sorry for yourself, that's what determines who are the superstars."

I think this applies far beyond sales.