No network has ever succeeded without owning stations in the two largest media markets of New York and Los Angeles.
Then again, what great endeavour ever succeeded without having to surmount many obstacles that stood in its way?
No great entrepreneur of the past has ever succeeded without feedback and support.
Indeed, no society has ever succeeded without a large, prospering middle class that embraced the idea of progress.
At a speech to a women's school in 1940, Jinnah said, "No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men," and indeed insisted throughout his life that "Pakistan is not going to be a theocratic state to be ruled by priests with a divine mission".
But no campaign of terror standing on its own without organized military combat has ever succeeded in all of human history.
No one has ever succeeded in doing this without dehumanization".
In fact, economic progress hardly ever succeeds in making some people better off, without also making someone else worse off.Take Peter Wood, the British entrepreneur who created the Direct Line insurance group in the 1980s.
Not one of them ever succeeded.
