Quotes About Perseverance

The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher.

Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.

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

But economic recovery must be earned. And it will be earned by entrepreneurs and it will be earned by small businesses.

If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

the harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.

Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.

In America, small business is a big deal.

If you start a chocolate company, you can't compete with Cadbury in the first ten years because they are a big company.

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

Business is much less transparent than a win in a Grand Prix; in a race you drive over the finishing line first and you have won. In business it is different.

Greatness is won, not awarded.

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

If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets.

If you've got a business - you didn't build that.

My business is to succeed, and I'm good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day.

Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.

Another friend hired me to open doors for him in the moving and relocation business. I did that for 10 years, am still doing it. And I do some work for the Cubs, in community relations.

People don't know how hard it is to have your own business

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.

Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.