Quotes About Endurance

Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I'm still pretty.

Its better to wear out than to rust out.

Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.

Never quit. Never give up.

I'll just stay in [show business] till they stuff me like Trigger, when I drop dead.

Marketing's job is never done. It's about perpetual motion. We must continue to innovate every day.

Marketing is not an event, but a process It has a beginning, a middle, but never an end, for it is a process. You improve it, perfect it, change it, even pause it. But you never stop it completely.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

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

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

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

Forget about 40 years in show business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie is enough.

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

Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end.

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.

Hope is a slow business.

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

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.

If you want to sustain excellence over a long time, you'd better come up with a system that works well. Anyone can sprint for a little while, but you can't sprint for forty years.

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

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.

I think of myself more as a workhorse actor. It will be hot and cold and up and down, but no one will kick me out of the business.

Hungry people always win.

Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.