Quotes About Persistence

Marketing is not an event, but a process It has a beginning, a middle, but never an end, for it is a process. You improve it, perfect it, change it, even pause it. But you never stop it completely.

There is no such thing as 'on the way out' as long as you are still doing something interesting and good; you're in the business because you're breathing.

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.

If there's something you want to build, but the tech isn't there yet, just find the closest possible way to make it happen.

the harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.

Anyone can do the job when things are going right. In this business we play for keeps.

No matter what business you are in, and no matter how small or mundane, the activities, there must be continuous investment in it.

Everyone experiences tough times, it is a measure of your determination and dedication how you deal with them and how you can come through them.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

Being an # entrepreneur is not a get-rich scheme; it takes # strength of character to keep going.

The challenge with being an initiator of projects is that you are never, ever done.

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

Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.

The world is full of bullshitters, Liars, and triers and quitters, Coulda-beens, wannabe's, thought-I-was, isn't-I-is's... And everybody in your business.

The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me

Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.

There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.

Get out of show business. Its the best advice I ever got, because Im so stubborn that if someone would tell me that, I would stay in it to the bitter end.

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats

When I do something, I do it all the way. I've been in show business so many years. I've achieved a lot of things.