Jessica Alba Quotes

Every successful author I know faced crushing rejection early on, and they got back up and kept going.

As important as hustle is, grit and resilience are equally as important because there's a lot of rejection in our business.

I received rejection letters for ten years (one on a napkin, written in crayon.) I had all my rejection notices stored in a box. When the box was finally full I took it to the curb and set it on fire. The next day I went out and got a temp job.

Don't give up. You're going to get kicked in the teeth. A lot. Learn to take a hit, then pick yourself up off the floor. Resilience is the true key to success.

A lot of times, people say that if you work hard and never give up, it will always work out, which is a great message. However, that's not always the case.

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.

If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.

There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.

Everybody in life has something that they get knocked down on. The object lesson here is not that you get knocked down - it is that you get up.

I still take losing out very seriously. But it inspires me that much more to move on. Quite often in my business, it's not the most talented people that succeed. Because they don't necessarily have the tenacity to deal with rejection.

One of the things is we tend to give up too soon. We get knocked down a couple of times, and we stay down. It's so important to get back up again.

When you get knocked down, you got to get backup. Otherwise, you are going to lose.

What I always liked best about myself was my resilience, especially in this business with all the 'no's,' the doors closed in my face.

The most successful people in the world are people who were rejected more than anybody else.

You have to be tough and stick it out, or you wind up being nothing.

A long list. From getting cut from the high school basketball team, to getting fired from jobs, getting credit cards rejected and cut up. Rejection has only been a distraction, not a roadblock. “Every no gets me closer to a yes,” was the saying I used to use.

It won't be easy, that is why I have always failed where others have succeeded.

I want to find people who have had to work hard and who have learned from their failures. Perseverance is no guarantee you’ll succeed, but without it, it’s almost guaranteed you won’t.

If you give up at the first sign of struggle, you're really not ready to be successful.

I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

Even in success, you're going to be constantly rejected.

The key to success in any kind of start up is your level of persistence. It's not so much your intellect. The Zuckerburg's, Pages and Brins, that succeed have such a level of belief in what they are doing that they will put up with the kind of crap that most people won't put up with, they are incredibly persistent and resilient.

Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.

I quickly learned that if I kept at it and plowed right through the rejections I would eventually get somebody to buy my wares.

Character is proportionate to N, the number of consecutive failures without being discouraged, or equivalently, the number of successive rejections without being intimidated.