Charles Schwab Quotes

The biggest hurdle is rejection. Any business you start, be ready for it. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is the successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don't want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your face, go to door number 11 enthusiastically, with a smile on your face.

If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.

My training of cold-calling and everyone under the sun telling me no, and my keeping going, was a huge part of the first two years of Spanx.

You definitely get the answer 'no' more times in this business than you do 'yes.' It's what you do with those 'nos' that makes your success either great or not.

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

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort.

I'd get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It's a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it.

For most of the people who have a lot of success, it's because they were the ones who didn't quit. It's not necessarily because it was just laid out for them. It won't apply to all cases, but I think it's pretty good advice.

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.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

When I first decided to open a restaurant, I was turned down by several banks. It was the late 80's and many restaurants were failing. I refused to give up because I knew I had a good concept.

When I was younger I was taught that a winner never quits, and a quitter never wins.

When some people have a difficult job to do, they give up everything else until that job is finished. Others just give 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.

Giving up is the first way to fail. It does not exist for me.

I believe 99% of success is never giving up.

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

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

The best advice my dad ever gave me is, ‘No does not mean never. It just means not yet.’ So not every audition, you’re gonna get but as long as you know it wasn’t meant for you then you’ll get the next one.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

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 is nothing to succeed if one has not taken great trouble, and it is nothing to fail if one has done the best one could.

I will forgive if the players cannot get it right, but not if they do not try hard.

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