Quotes About Persistence

I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!

Business is hard, really hard, but it's worth it.

If you want your business to survive for 100 years, you've got to make it through every single day for 100 years. It's not enough to do it 99.9% of the time.

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.

Whatever policy we adopt, there must be an energetic prosecution of it. For this purpose it must be somebody's business to pursue and direct it incessantly.

We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.

I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while

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

In business, we say that people overestimate what you can do in a year and underestimate what you can do in a decade. This is true in philanthropy as well.

You learn after you've been in the business for a while that it's not getting your face recognized that's the payoff. It's having your film remembered.

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

For a business plan written when the hardware was a wire-wrapped board and the software was three demos on a graphics substrate, it was pretty close.

Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.

If there is one characteristic that signals creativity in business, it might be follow-through.

The best piece of advice Ive ever been given was, Be in the business youre in. Dont just be a satellite around it and expect it to come to you. Be in the business youre in.

Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.

In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.

I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.

There were a lot of signs being thrown at me. A lot of angels I was meeting, inspiring me to get back into show business.

If you must begin then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time.

In business, as in baseball, the prizes go most often to the organizations that pursue their objective hard and relentlessly every day of the year.

If you can survive 'Saturday Night Live,' then you're good as far as show business is concerned.

The average for entrepreneurs is 3.8 failures before they finally make it in business.

Music business is hard. It's very difficult. And it's not for everyone. Even if you can sing or even if you can write a song, it takes a lot of determination, it takes some kind of thick skin.