Quotes About Perseverance

If you have never missed when investing, you haven't been in there trying.

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.

My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.

You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way.

I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.

People like to say their songs are like children, but you gotta get those kids out there so they can make some money and pay the rent.

Where there is a will, there's prosperity around the corner.

I prayed to God for help and I put myself in a recovery house called Studio 12. It was for people in the business and you didn't have to have any money to go, which was good because I was broke.

I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

My father hauled boxes so I could get an education and earn enough money to pay someone to make me lift weights.

It is hard to apply oneself to study when there is no money to pay for food and lodging. I almost never explain these things when folks are asking me why I don't do this or that.

From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money.

When I started in radio, I worked for free. I lived at the radio station. Then I worked for very little money.

You have to make something good. Just because all the hot actors show up and the money is there and the explosives are ready, it doesn't matter.

It's one thing to be struggling and not really making money in your early 20s and figuring out your life. Early 30s, you start to wonder, is this ever going to happen?

What differentiates us from other money managers with a similar style is that we're comfortable with new lows.

I've been making music ever since, but it was never something I thought I could make any money doing.

If I had all the money in the world, I'd be like, "Great, let's just keep doing it!" I, unfortunately, have not won the lottery or found the magic genie lamp.

I told all of our original investors that they would lose their money for sure.

You may never get to that perfect world that you're waiting for where everything's going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time.

No one was jumping up and saying, 'Yeah, let me give you money.' I had never held a camera in my hand - a home video camera, nothing. I had not directed.

Remember, at the time God gives us a vision, we never have the resources available to accomplish it. We don't have the people, the money, the knowledge, or the opportunity.