If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters.
At the end of a marathon, it's going to hurt whether you're speeding up or slowing down. You may as well push.
Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
You can't drag people from understanding to action. A customer isn't actually at the last mile if you're the one dragging her to the finish line.
The 10% between 90% done to 100% done takes most of the time, causes most of the stress, but is all of the value.
Net Neutrality originally referred to management of the 'last mile' of the network over which data flows into a person's home, but the debate has grown beyond that in recent years.
If it doesn't reach the last poor man, your constitution is wrong.
To me, the last mile of the Internet that very few people have successfully really done. And this is like micro local. Things that really impact your life. And noone's leveraging that yet.
