There are people who will try to convince you to give up on your dream. They will tell you that you're crazy and that achieving that goal is impossible. There will be others who laugh at you, mock you, and try to bring you down to their level.

Those people are dream stealers, so don't listen to them.

Monty was a student in high school. The teacher gave the students the task of writing about what they wanted to do when they grew up. Monty wrote that he wanted to own a farm on a vast piece of land where he could raise many racehorses.

The teacher gave him a grade of "very poor" and justified it by saying that the grade reflected his belief that the goal was unrealistic. He believed that no poor boy living in the countryside on the back of a truck could ever gather enough money to buy a farm on a vast piece of land, buy horses, tools, and supplies for their breeding, and also pay the workers on the farm.

When the teacher offered Monty the opportunity to rewrite his paper for a higher grade, Monty told him, "You keep the grade, and I'll keep my dream."

Today, Monty owns his own farm on vast stretches of land in California. He raises racehorses there and trains hundreds of horse breeders.