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When I think about parallels between myself and an Olympian, I believe that success in the world of business is underpinned by very similar principles of perseverance and hard work.
Sep 27, 2025
I lived in lower-income neighborhoods in the inner city. Across the street were dark parts of the world. I've experienced the gamut, from third world to inner city to my parents working their way out of being secretaries and janitors to professors and real-estate people. They've shown me a path of perseverance and hard work in a peaceable way.
Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.
To succeed, you must have tremendous perserverance... tremendous will. "I will drink the ocean", says the perservering soul; at my will mountains will crumble. Have that sort of energy, that sort of will; work hard, and you will reach the goal.
Decide carefully, exactly what you want in life, then work like mad to make sure you get it!
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
I think that you appreciate that there are extraordinary men and women and extraordinary moments when history leaps forward on the backs of these individuals, that what can be imagined can be achieved, that you must dare to dream, but that there's no substitute for perseverance and hard work and teamwork because no one gets there alone; and that, while we commemorate the... the greatness of these events and the individuals who achieve them, we cannot forget the sacrifice of those who make these achievements and leaps possible.
Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
In my opinion, the teaching, rearing, and training of children requires more intelligence, intuitive understanding, humility, strength, wisdom, spirituality, perseverance, and hard work than any other challenge we might have in life.
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
If America is the land of opportunity, a country where perseverance and hard work is rewarded by recognition, then an illegal harbors the opposite ambitions. His greatest reward us anonymity, invisibility. Aided and abetted by market forces and the laws of supply and demand, he hones his skill to stand up but make sure he's never counted.
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
The harder I work the more I live.
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.
If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.
If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Success ... seems to be connected with action.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
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