Ron Conway Quotes

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

You must be passionate, you must dedicate yourself, and you must be relentless in the pursuit of your goals. If you do, you will be successful.

Well, you know what? The actor still gets up in the morning, if he's still got something to work with, you go out there and you do it. Never quit!

I'm pretty aggressive, and maybe obnoxious, about trying to get work.

Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.

An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.

I know only one way: work hard.

You gotta grind, you gotta make your way. Everybody's got their grind mentality in Memphis.

You've got to be the hardest-working guy.

I'm the hardest worker you'll ever meet.

I'm a firm believer in making it happen - no matter what 'it' is. Sometimes I feel a bit too driven - where it's all I think about. But I guess that's gotten me to where I am, so I can't complain.

To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will.

If you’re not afraid, if you take everything you are, everything worthwhile in you and direct it at one goal, one ultimate mark, you’ve got to get there.

Entrepreneurs don't finish when we are tired. We finish when we are done.

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence.

I have too much drive and determination to let anything falter me.

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''

I think my strengths perhaps are that I'm determined. I may not be the best climber in the world, but I do like to sort of succeed and so that tends to drive me on, as it were, and I don't give up too easily.

People don't understand: I've always been busy. They think that, "Oh, he's too busy, blah blah blah...," but for me, this is how it's always been. I took 18 credits every semester of college, graduated in three years, took graduate school courses, played football and baseball my whole college career. I've never stopped, and that's where that phrase "No Time 2 Sleep" is always true. I get motivated by success, by winning, by being around great people.

Drive, determination, passion and hard work are all free and more valuable than a pot of cash.

The unwillingness to accept anything short of victory, that underlying fury, is the fundamental building block of my bottomless motivation to succeed. It is my credo in all that I do in life from battling cancer to bicycle racing.

Determination and hard work are as important as talent.

I think that drive to fight the fight day in and day out, I think that can go away. You can lose that. As long as you continue to be consumed and overwhelmed with the desire to get better and find another way and keep competing to figure out what you can do to help make this guy be better than he was a day ago, as long as that's there, I don't agree.

Those who successfully go through tough times do so because they keep insisting.

If you're really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you're going to get it.