Elon Musk Quotes

I was relentless, even in the face of total lack of encouragement, because much more often than you'd think, sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.

The only plan was to persevere.

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.

No I don't ever give up. I would have to be dead or completely incapacitated

It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.

It's how tenacious you are that will determine your success.

Never quit. Never give up.

Do I believe in giving up? No, I don't.

Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

There was no giving up. Trying and trying. That's what I'm all about.

I've come to believe that everything worth achieving is beyond one's capacity - or seems so at first. The thing is to persist, not back off, fight your fight, pay your dues, and carry on. Effort is all; continue and you may get there despite everything.

You cannot give up - you have to be persistent and keep pushing, and press on.

In the end, it's all about perseverance.

I'm not gonna give up, shut up, or let up, until I'm taken up... as a matter of fact, I'm just getting warmed up.

And you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

That's why successful people in every field are almost universally members of a certain set - the set of people who don't give up.

Tenacious people don't rely on luck, fate, or destiny for their success. And when conditions become difficult, they keep working.

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!''

Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life.

Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence.

Perseverance is king.

If you're going to succeed, you've got to be like one of those punch-drunk fighters in the old Warner Bros. boxing pictures: too stupid to fall down, you just keep slugging and stay on your feet.

What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck.

Never give up! And remember, determination is as important as talent.