Hannah Hammond and Rob Walters discuss why persistence matters. After approaching 40 banks and facing rejection, Hammond finally got a loan from Jim Clayton at Clayton Bank & Trust. Walters says the one trait every successful person shares is an extreme unwillingness to quit.
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Set up meetings with, I think, like, 40 banks, and they were striking out left and right, and I'm like, oh, my God, this might not work. We ended up going to Clayton bank and Trust in Knoxville for the last one, and five minutes later, this old guy comes in. I'm Jim Clayton, you know, founder, CEO of Clayton Bank. Like, you guys seem like good guys. Yeah, we'll lend you the money.
That's a testament to your resilience. Forty banks, most normal people will get rejected once, maybe twice, maybe three times, and they're like, all right, I can't do it. That's just not reality. You have to do it 40 times. One trait that I recognize, recognizing the people that are able to accomplish success in all the areas of their life is that they are just insanely driven and determined and resilient, and that's really all that it comes down to, is, like, they just don't quit.