Quotes About Adversity

Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people

Due to budget cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.

If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new.

Running helped me learn how to deal with failure, and failure is a big part of the Internet business.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running; if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.

However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions.

I was asked what I thought about the recession. I thought about it and decided not to take part.

I'd be in the backyard minding my own business. The other kids would call me names, like meatball head or neo-Calvinist. I'd run after them, but lucky for them the chain would snap my neck back.

If Roman Abramovich helped me out in training we would be bottom of the league and if I had to work in his world of big business, we would be bankrupt!

Managers think of themselves as captains of a ship on a stormy sea. Risk for them is danger, but they are fighting it, very controlled.

Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats

Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.

There are opportunities that you get during crises times. Crises times are a great time to start a business.

Ninety-nine percent of all surprises in business are negative.

Some people have a tendency to get knocked down in this business and sulk and whine, and they just create a rod for their back, really. You have to have broad shoulders and get through it.

A recession is when you have to tighten your belt; depression is when you have no belt to tighten. When you've lost your trousers - you're in the airline business.

Just being young and growing up in this business is hard. Just growing up in general is hard.

If I don't make music I'm going back to the hood. I'll sell crack. I'm gonna go back to sell crack if I can't make it in the music business and that's what I was doing before that.

I shall make it my business to take my chances in the matter of libel suits.

We've had public companies in the past in that business and they bleed. We've got a lot more blood than they do.

We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!

Remain focused on fulfilling your business mission. Never allow adversity divert your attention and efforts.

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.