| Imagine the horses all lined up at the gate in the last | | | | Good business people have Street Sense. They know |
| Kentucky Derby. Successful businessmen/women are | | | | what type of skills they must work on, they know |
| just like thoroughbred horses. They must practice, run | | | | where their weaknesses are, and they keep practicing |
| like the wind and sometimes be driven to make it first | | | | until they are the best. In other words, they have the |
| through the line. Like a horse race the majorities are | | | | ability to keep working and improving their skills until |
| losers and only a few are Triple Crown winners. | | | | they succeed despite their odds. |
| We know that the majority of horses are not of the | | | | Imagine yourself as Street Sense in the 2007 |
| quality and disposition to ever be entered at the | | | | Kentucky Derby. Calvin Borel rallied the older horse |
| Kentucky Derby. Some might actually run in their local | | | | Street Sense to win the Kentucky Derby with 2 |
| races but are not skilled enough to go beyond their | | | | & ¾ length in the 133rd running of the |
| home town. The vast majority of horses will be used | | | | $2,000,000 pot. He rose from the 19th position and |
| for nothing but manual labor and the occasional ride | | | | challenged himself to the lead. |
| through the farm. | | | | The owners of Street Sense did not one day throw |
| Business men/women are much like horses. The | | | | the horse onto the track and yell "run! run! run!" Like |
| majority of people will only work for a living, a few | | | | many of us Street Sense would have failed and most |
| might become small town business owners and a | | | | of us would have understood why. Despite knowing |
| select few will play in the chance to win millions of | | | | that an untrained horse wouldn't do very well we want |
| dollars. What makes these thoroughbreds different | | | | to beat ourselves up daily because we are not |
| then the rest of society is their ability to continually | | | | successful. |
| improve on their skills. | | | | |