Billy Eichner Quotes

When I was coming up as an entrepreneur, I had to fight for everything I got, and there was no clear roadmap of how to be successful.

Don't take it personally if you're met with opposition. Work hard anyway.

People can do whatever they want if they just set their heart to it, and just never give up, and just go out there and do it.

A lot of times I had some problems, but I always had the passion and the personal motivation to keep going, to keep working hard, keep fighting for the things that really motivates me. That's all.

The number of times I have fallen down is the number of times I have gotten up.

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

Every time I've failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

As an athlete, you sort of just win every day. Because you're going to sometimes lose every day. And so you just keep picking yourself up and going forward.

I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it.

I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.

Everything good takes a great amount of effort. Like, things went wrong with 'Prozac Nation' so much, and it went through so many rejections and incarnations, but I felt so much that it needed to exist. But if I hadn't been so persistent and insistent, it wouldn't have happened.

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.

A lot of people gave up on us, but we kept kicking and making music.

I train like I never had nothing 'cause I ain't never had nothing.

Entrepreneurship is a muscle, and winning is an endurance game.

I come from zero and I've had to push myself up to where I am today. I'm not going to give up and I'm going to keep pushing.

For the last three years that I have tried, people are laughing at me and saying that I was trying too hard. And my answer is yeah, I really am trying hard.

I'm a big believer in having to go through hard times to get to where you want to be. Nothing comes easy. You have to work.

Anybody out there who has had a situation where they've had to struggle - when they want something so badly, but they can't quite get it - I am living and breathing proof that if you endure, if you push yourself, if you strive to be your best, no matter what, if you keep on working hard, then good things can happen.

I work really hard, and have had many opportunities to give up and throw the towel in. But I never did.

You learn after losing quite a bit, year after year, that you have to continue to work hard, stay tough, and endure to the end before it's going to work out.

We live in a culture that celebrates determination and hard work, but understand, these are the qualities that keep you in the game after most everybody else has left - or until somebody bigger and stronger picks you up and hurls you back out to sea.

Being in bands and plugging away with not many opportunities and no money for many years really shaped me and taught me about work ethic.

Be encouraged. Stay on your hustle. You can't fail until u quit.