Quotes About Persistence

Persistence creates luck.

Don't do something just for the money. Money is a side effect of persistence. You persist in things you are interested in. Explore your interests. Then persist. Then enjoy all the side effects.

IMPROVE YOUR APPROACH. You keep getting rejected in bars? Find a different place, where the odds aren't stacked against you. Nobody responding to your networking e-mails for "Ten minutes of your time please?" Then offer something. Give something for free so people immediately see value in your approach immediately. You keep cold-calling customers and they hang up? Find a different way to get distribution. CHANGE UP, DON'T GIVE UP.

James Altucher

The only truly safe thing you can do is to try over and over again. To go for it, to get rejected, to repeat, to strive, to wish.

There's no way to know in advance if a business idea is a good one. Google started around 1996 but didn't make a dime of money until around 2001.

Keep failing until you accidentally no longer fail.

Today I will try again. And tomorrow. And then the next day. If I don't get better, I will at least have fun trying. And what else is there in life but to play as much as possible?

Don't be sad when you fail and happy when you succeed. Both are going to happen again and again at every new level.

Keep going until you hit the finish line!" It's "Keep failing until you accidentally no longer fail." That's persistence. NOT

Some people will say, "Well, I'm just not an entrepreneur." This is not true. Everyone is an entrepreneur. The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur are the ability to fail, to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on them, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure.

The typical answer is "I study four hours a day.

As your idea muscle improves, so will your ability to "fail quickly"—which is a much more crucial skill to hone than executing quickly.

Everyone is an entrepreneur. The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur are an ability to fail, an ability to have ideas and to sell those ideas, the courage to execute on those ideas, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move on to the next adventure.

My theory always in any career is that it takes one to three years to do the studying required. About two years before you are making any money at the new career. Three to four years before you are making a living from it and five to six years before you are killing it.

On the path to mastery, everything will go wrong.

If too many things have to happen in order to bring about the situation you want, then back out of it and try again later.

Picasso also says, "I am always doing things I can't do—that's how I get to do them.

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

There are people in the world for whom coming along is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.

If you are going to be a writer there is nothing I can say to stop you; if you're not going to be a writer nothing I can say will help you. What you really need at the beginning is somebody to let you know that the effort is real.

It's a long way," John said slowly, "ain't it? It's a hard way. It's uphill all the way.

but the Atlantic Ocean is deep and wide and money doesn't hurry from the other side.

It was he who, unforgivably, taught her that there are people in the world for whom coming along is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.