Jeff Bezos Quotes

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

Persistence is incredibly important. Persistence proves to the person you're trying to reach that you're passionate about something, that you really want something.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.

I've always been tenacious.

I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.

My friends have always called me 'Mr. Thorough,' in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it.

I've always been stubborn.

I'm very stubborn. I feel like I'm going to play this season.

I am a bull. I am Taurus. My will is awful. If I like something, there is nothing else. I was a pain in the neck. I still am a pain in the neck.

I've always been a stubborn kid.

I'm a stubborn individual.

Whenever I do something, I tend to focus on it and spend all of my time and energy on it.

The only recipe is hard work, persistence, and belief.

Grinding is a mindset and a willingness and commitment to work at it.

I refuse to take no for an answer on anything.

When there's something I need to focus on, I'm like a dog with a bone.

I'm stubborn.

I'm stubborn; once I start something, I want to see how far I can go.

Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.

If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession. [...] You have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way.

Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.

I think my stubbornness has served me well. I just knew at an early age what I wanted to do and I was determined to be able to make it happen, no matter how long it took.

The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.

It's all about his determination. You never, ever, give up once you start something, once you're on the trail of something you don't stop and that's what you have to go through when you're making a movie too. Once the train's rolling, you have to stick with it.