Roy Ash Quotes

I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I'm their hero.

I take on daunting tasks.

It's the uncertainty, the challenge and the willingness to put it all on the line that draws a lot of people to climb mountains. That can also apply to a lot of other challenges in life, whether it's running for office, starting a family, going to grad school or taking all of your cash and assets and starting a business.

When I started Go Daddy, I tried many things - like building networks and selling education - and none of it panned out. I lost millions of dollars the first couple of years. I made a lot of wrong turns, but that's the process of being successful in business.

I have a mother who never took no for an answer when it came to her creative pursuits. She started a hair salon in her spare bedroom and four years later had 30 employees.

I think that a lot of the most talented and driven people, they're not super deterred by failure. So if you put out a really big challenge, I think they get reality excited by that - they say, 'Hey, why not, let's go give it a shot, and if we fall short on that, at least we took a shot at doing something really important and meaningful.'

I don't give up. I'm definitely meant to be an entrepreneur.

I love biting off way more than I can chew, and that's a great motivator because it forces me to rise to the occasion.

Being an entrepreneur is simply going from one mistake to the next. You must have the fortitude to continue on.

In today's rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers.

An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true.

Most of what I learned as an entrepreneur was by trial and error.

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

All life is an experiment.

It takes a special kind of stubbornness to succeed as an entrepreneur

Stay far from timid only make moves when you're heart's in it, and live the phrase the sky's the limit.

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.

Like many of my fellow entrepreneurs, I didn't create Hearsay Social with my co-founder Steve Garrity because it would be fun and easy, but because we're at our best when faced with enormous challenges.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

It is the creative and enterprising spirit of people that is indispensable. Everything else is supplemental.

I have always liked a challenge.

I try to create a challenge for myself in each book. And sometimes, believe me, I just kick myself afterwards, and say, 'Why on earth did you ever attempt this, you idiot!' But I'm always better for the experience.

I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then this idea of climbing Mount Everest came to my mind. It stuck in my head for days. Someone told me I couldn't do it, and that really annoyed me.

I like a challenge.

When it comes down to it, at the end of the day, I need more out of my life and I need to push myself harder. And if at the end of the day I don't have it, then I don't have it, but at least I'm going to put myself out there. If I fail, I'm going to fail terrifically.