Winning words for success

Inspired by the late Jim Rohn in one of his speeches, I took his words to heart, expanded their application and lived them out for years.

- FRANCIS J. KONG

Looking back now, I see how those words shaped my life and left a lasting impact.

There's no shortcut to true success—only the long, worthwhile path of values, responsibility and character. And sometimes, even a funny classroom story reminds us of that.

Two students. One is bright and the other one, not so bright.

They both took a test. There were 10 questions on the test.

While checking the test papers, the teacher suspected something was amiss.

The bright student answered nine out of 10 questions correctly. The not-so-bright student also answered nine out of 10 questions correctly, which is why the teacher was suspicious.

Running out of time, the bright student was unable to answer the 10th question on the test. And so he wrote down the words, "Do not know the answer."

And on the test paper of the not-so-bright student, he writes the words: "Do not know the answer either!"

You don't cheat your way to being successful. In the eyes of the world, you may think some do. But deep inside and in the long run, all of them don't. There is always a cost to their dishonesty.