Michael Arrington Quotes

Everyday I'm Hustlin'.

People have challenged me all my life, told me I wasn't fast enough, wasn't smart enough, but you know what? No one's ever outworked me. My definition of tired and most people's definition of tired are two totally different things.

People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that's been what has gotten me this far.

It doesn't take talent to hustle.

Hard work and determination equals success. Nothing comes easy. Put your mind to something.

Success is a combination of effort, talent and hard work. There's got to be hard work and mental toughness. It's not just one thing that gets you there it's an accumulation of things

I will work when failures seek rest.

I always hustled to make money and pay for school. I was never afraid of hard work.

It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential.

It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.

If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be.

The vision, determination, stamina, hope, relentlessness, and sheer work that are involved in staying afloat, much less succeeding, are the same whether you are running a window on 47th Street or Miramax Films or Microsoft.

I've carried my chip with me my entire career. I've had to fight and claw for every position I've had. I sat on the bench as a junior in high school, I had to compete my senior year in high school to get the job. I competed again at Vanderbilt before having success.

Coming from a home like I did, I learned a lot about work ethic and determination.

I've been in situations in my career where I've had slumps and struggles. I always stick with it and just keep working.

From Day One, I've always had to work to find my way onto the court or onto the top position or whatever it may be.

I've worked countless jobs from waiting tables to packing boxes in a paper factory - a testament that I hustled on and never gave up til I reached my dreams.

Hustle like you broke and keep that passion.

I have a real worker-bee mentality. Just show up, just do it. Even if you feel like s--t and you think you're terrible and you'll never get better and it will never go anywhere, just show up and do it. And, eventually, something happens.

Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit. Give everything you got today for tomorrow may never come.

I also know, as an entrepreneur myself, you face new obstacles every day and you need to have the perseverance to see them through.

If you don't respect nothin' else, you will respect this hustle.

His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —which he had adopted as his personal motto.

I was turned down by every record label in L.A. Perseverance is three quarters of the game. Talent's only a quarter. Being able to withstand the word 'no' over and over can build you a pretty tough skin. I knew if I just kept at it, at the very least I'd get better at my craft.