Quotes About Persistence

Uncertainty is where new value is created. Everything you want in life is on the other side of all your excuses for not trying.

Good follow-up alone elevates you above 95 percent of your peers. The follow-up is the hammer and nails of your networking tool kit. In fact, FOLLOW-UP IS THE KEY TO SUCCESS IN ANY FIELD.

That isn't always enough. I had written a piece for the Wall Street Journal's weekly column called the Manager's Journal. The editor liked the piece but kept pushing it back so he could publish other pieces that were timelier. So I began to rewrite the intros to my piece each week to relate to something that was in the news at the time. In short order, the article finally saw the light of day.

And when you do finally connect, don't sabotage your efforts by expressing how annoyed you are that they didn't get back to you as quickly as you would have liked. Nor should you apologize for your persistence. Just dive in as if you caught him on the first call. Make it comfortable for everyone.

Take as little time as possible in your cold call to ensure that the next time you speak to them it's in their office, or better yet, over some linguine and wine.

What will set you apart from everybody else is the relentlessness you bring to learning and presenting and selling your content. Take

If 80 percent of success is, as Woody Allen once said, just showing up, then 80 percent of building and maintaining relationships is just staying in touch.

among the failed startups, 80 percent never managed to innovate beyond their original vision for their companies. Among the successful startups, however, two-thirds had found success by discarding whatever founding vision had gotten them funded, because trial and error had led them to a new vision of success.

I've been stuck up shit creek without a means of propulsion too, you'll need to dig deep and be willing to get your hands dirty.

The world bursts at the seams with people ready to tell you you're not good enough. On occasion, some may be correct. But do not do their work for them. Seek any job; ask anyone out; pursue any goal. Don't take it personally when they say 'no' — they may not be smart enough to say 'yes.

You all got on this boat for different reasons, but you all come to the same place. So now I'm asking more of you than I have before. Maybe all. 'Cause as sure as I know anything, I know this: They will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground, swept clean. A year from now, ten, they'll swing back to the belief that they can make people—better. And I do not hold to that. So no more running. I aim to misbehave.

Retire? I can't spell the word. I'd play in a wheelchair.

We've got the sound and we know we can find it one way or another if we've got the song - we'll chase the damn thing all around the room, up to the ceiling. We know we've got it and we'll lock on to it and find it.

You can't always get what you want But if you try sometimes, Well, You just might find you get what you need.

Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas, and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other.

Ever since we were little, we were so on fire for our dreams. We never let anyone blow our flames out.

I will make it if I have to crawl.

There's no room at the chuck wagon for a quitter's blankets.

A man who looks for easy work goes to bed tired.

It's easier to catch a horse than break him.

Some folks have their good points but they keep jabbin' you with 'em like they was spurs.

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves," Rilke advised

(On his marathon live shows) You think you can get away, but you can't. I'll follow you home and I'll shout jokes through your letterbox.

you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.