Quotes About Perseverance

To come right down to it, if I take my kind of things in which I believe, then add to that the kind of temperament that I have to whatever I believe in-- these are ingredients which make it just about impossible for me to die of old age. -- The autobiography of Malcom X

We had tasted what it was like being dead. We had rolled it around in our mouths and swallowed it and now the stink from it was coming from us. We weren't all right. We would have to learn to be alive again.

On December 27 land was sighted. They had reached France. The men were confined to the ship until New Year's Day but were happy to be the first black unit to reach Europe.

My friends, in these desperate times we must use every weapon we have...You must understand that patience can be a weapon.

I think that if we can't go back, then we should try even harder to go forward.

He had the attitude that he could do anything, and therefore so can you. He put his life in my hands. So that made me do something I didn't think I could do.... If you trust him, you can do things. If he's decided that something should happen, then he's just going to make it happen. (Elizabeth Holmes)

It takes a lot of hard work," he said, "to make something simple

Everything you've ever done in your life is shit," Jobs said, "so why don't you come work for me?

Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change. Dozens of the colleagues whom Jobs most abused ended their litany of horror stories by saying that he got them to do things they never dreamed possible. And he created a corporation crammed with A players.

up in a middle-class family, so I never thought I would starve.

to let Jobs go, but Bushnell worked out a solution. "The smell and behavior wasn't an issue with

You did the impossible, because you didn't realize it was impossible.

People who were not crushed ended up being stronger.

Ever since Apple's first brochure proclaimed Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication, Jobs had aimed for the simplicity that comes from conquering complexities, not ignoring them. It takes a lot of hard word, he said, to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up with elegant solutions.

office as Jobs arrived. He looked "rather like a boxer

Okay, it's not easy, but that's why we're no Einstein and he was.

survey of all that Jobs accomplished, replete with the passion and excitement that it deserves … Sceptic after sceptic made the mistake of underrating Steve Jobs, but he got the last laugh every time. This book makes it all

By this point Jobs had poured close to $50 million of his own money into Pixar—more than half of what he had pocketed when he cashed out of Apple—and he was still losing money at NeXT. He was hard-nosed about it; he forced all Pixar employees to give up their options as part of his agreement to add another round of personal funding in 1991. But he was also a romantic in his love for what artistry and technology could do together.

If you don't love something, you're not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much. Mr.

When shown his office, he was asked what equipment he might need. "A desk or table, a chair, paper and pencils," he replied. "Oh yes, and a large wastebasket, so I can throw away all my mistakes.

One useful leadership talent is knowing when to push ahead against doubters and when to heed them.

As he approached his thirtieth birthday, Leonardo had established his genius but had remarkably little to show for it publicly. His only known artistic accomplishments were some brilliant but peripheral contributions to two Verrocchio paintings, a couple of devotional Madonnas that were hard to distinguish from others being produced in the workshop, a portrait of a young woman that he had not delivered, and two unfinished would-be masterpieces.

You're better off to go out and start your own company and fail than it is to stick at one company for thirty years.

Hacer lo imposible es bastante divertido, declaró en una ocasión Walt Disney.