Steve Blank Quotes

If you don't give anything, don't expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.

People who soar, are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change

Those who approach their jobs and careers with enthusiasm always find plenty of opportunities, while those who complain about no one ever giving them a chance are merely observers of life. When you are determined that you will not allow others to determine your future for you, when you refuse to allow temporary setbacks to defeat you, you are destined for great success. The opportunities will always be there for you.

Life helps those who help themselves.

I'm constantly reminding myself that the world owes us nothing. We have to make our way and we have to work hard, persevere and make our own way in the world because the world isn't waiting for us, so let's let the world know we are here.

Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

I'm the kind of person who doesn't wait for opportunities to fall from the sky.

Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's the exciting part.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

Nothing comes sailing by itself.

Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.

When I came to Swansea, no one said to me: 'Whatever happens you're going to be No. 1.' But I felt I would at least have the chance to start or be given an opportunity and then it would be up to me to take it.

I really do think that is why this country is so great: If you want to accomplish something, then you must do it.

I'm not going to sit on the couch in my house and expect everything to come, I know that I must continue to work hard.

You have to do the work. You have to make the opportunity. It doesn’t find you, you find it.

The world is run by those who show up not those who wait to be asked.

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.

The world seems to belong to those who reach out and grab it with both hands. It belongs to those who do something rather than just wish and hope and plan and pray, and intend to do something someday, when everything is just right.

Be willing to work for nothing in things you think are stupid. Make work for yourself. Make your own luck. Don't complain. Hopefully, the work will find you if you are ready.

When you can't wait for your ship to come in, you've got to row out to it.

When people say to me: "Oh don't worry, if one door closes another one opens..." If one door closes for me, go through the window - I'm not interested in waiting around for people to give me opportunities. I try and make things happen and if I am given opportunities I take them and work harder.

Don't wait for your break, make your break. Go make it happen for yourself.

If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can't just sit back and hope it will happen. You've got to make it happen.

Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail.