Quotes About Determination

Jobs was often bullied, and in the middle of seventh grade he gave his parents an ultimatum. "I insisted they put me in a different school

people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones

silver Mercedes parked in a handicapped spot. Steve Jobs was inside screaming at his car phone. This was right before the first iMac was unveiled and I'm pretty sure I could make out, 'Not. Fucking. Blue. Enough!!!' " As always, Jobs was compulsive in preparing for the dramatic unveiling. Having

Because I didn't know it couldn't be done, I was enabled to do it.

Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

inevitable call from him saying, "This hotel sucks, let's go." But Ive also captured the scattershot brilliance at the core of Jobs's genius when he described his boss tossing out ideas at a meeting. "Sometimes they were dopey. Sometimes they were truly dreadful. But

There's no way we're slipping!

His personality was reflected in the products he created.

One of the engineers told Atkinson that there was no way to build such a mouse commercially. After Atkinson complained to Jobs over dinner, he arrived at the office the next day to discover that Jobs had fired the engineer. When his replacement met Atkinson, his first words were, "I can build the mouse.

caso de John Atanasoff, el olvidado inventor de Iowa, la concepción de la idea es solo el primer paso. Lo que importa realmente es la ejecución.

Lograbas hacer lo imposible porque no te dabas cuenta de que era imposible.»

Stoop, young man, stoop—as you go through this world—and you'll miss many hard thumps.

She had succeeded where the other technician had failed. "It was an incredible moment, and it made me think I could do science.

He does not hesitate at our boldest measures, but rather seems to think us too irresolute.

At the age of 31, he had five children to raise, a trade to tend, and a shop to keep. He needed a robust new wife, and he needed her quickly.

Pauli Murray perfected two characteristics of leadership: indomitable persistence and relentless self-invention.

Por mucho énfasis que debamos poner en el liderazgo, la organización y el trabajo en equipo, el individuo sigue siendo determinante, de una importancia suprema. Las ideas y los conceptos creativos nacen en la mente de una sola persona.

where a party of untrained English Territorials tried to hold them with a barricade of cardboard boxes.

A man once told me that you step out of your door in the morning, and you are already in trouble. The only question is, are you on top of that trouble or not?

Trustin' a woman is like walkin' in California," Coydog would say. "You know there's bound to be a quake sometimes but you just keep on walkin' anyways. What else could you do?

Ain't no shame in bein' a grocer but it's bitch and a half if they think that that's all you're good for.

Yeah. If you've never been knocked down, then you've never been in a fight.

A man must support his own weight, no matter how much money or power he has; that is the law of gravity.

Though assailed by hopelessness I was not afraid.