Peter Jones Quotes

You know, being an entrepreneur is super hard work, and if you're not passionate about what you're doing, you're probably not going to succeed.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren't proud of what you're doing, why should anybody else be?

Starting a company is like going to war. You can't do anything else but be fully engaged. You have to be insanely, passionately, nothing-can-stop-me committed.

I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.

As a kid, I harbored this fantasy of starting a company. I looked at the entrepreneur column in Forbes. I looked at it every month and thought, 'I want to be that guy.'

If you don't love what you're doing with unbridled passion and enthusiasm, you're not going to succeed when you hit obstacles.

Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.

I have no regrets about launching Salon. For the life of me, I can't imagine doing anything else.

You must find something that you deeply love and are passionate about and are willing to sacrifice a lot to achieve.

You don't have to raise millions of dollars to be successful, you just have to work on something you are passionate about.

My entire career proves to me that if you believe in what you're doing, you will reap the benefits.

When we started CANANA, I wasn't married, so I guess I was married to the idea of CANANA.

I've tried lots of things. The reality is, I'm excited by everything on Day 1. And if by Day X things aren't working the way I hoped, I lose my passion. I have not seen the correlation between my passion and my success.

The only people I've ever met who are really successful in their fields, regardless of what field that is, are people who are deeply passionate about the work they do every day and are motivated by a sense of purpose.

When you get involved in a startup, you have to be passionate.

I really feel gratitude every day in my life that I'm able to do what I love, and I think, because I have that passion and spirit, I've had success.

Believe in your work.

I never had it in mind that I would start a company one day and it would really be successful. I have just been motivated by working on interesting technology

If you don't love and believe in what you're building, you're likely to give up at some point along the way.

You should pursue your passion. If you're passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you'll be successful. If you start a business because you think you're going to make a lot of money at it, then you probably won't be successful, because that's the wrong reason to start a business. You have to really believe in what you're doing, be passionate enough about it so that you will put in the hours and hard work that it takes to actually succeed there, and then you'll be successful.

No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.

I'm a firm believer in the hustle game.

I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about.

When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.