Quotes About Resilience

Business is tough; you need tough guys.

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.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

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.

We would like to believe that we are not in the business of surviving but in being good, and we do not like to admit to ourselves that we are good in order to survive.

You have to be pretty tough to be an actor, and you have to be pretty certain what you want. You can't waffle through this business.

We've weathered several periods when times weren't so good, and so I don't think we'll cancel our advertising now. In fact, we might even increase it.

Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats

Doing more with less, is a crucial principle to learn; especially if you're going to be in business in this rapidly changing world.

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.

If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.

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.

In this business, if you don't have the capacity to step back and have some sort of relativity about things, you're screwed.

An adaptable company is one that captures more than its fair share of new opportunities. It's always redefining its 'core business' in ways that open up new avenues for growth.

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.

Hope is a slow business.

This is a tough business to run for president.

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

A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.

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

I was just shaking and then also immediately, I had to go into 'take-care-of-business-mode' which included a change to a more healthy diet.

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

A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal.