Martin Winterkorn Quotes

Life is an obstacle course. You succeed at one thing and then you move on to the next. When an obstacle is tough, you try harder. When an obstacle is insurmountable, you change course. But you never sit down and refuse to finish.

When blocked or defeated in an enterprise I had much at heart, I always turned immediately to another field of work where progress looked possible, biding my time for a chance to resume the obstructed road.

I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character.

I was always taught to let the obstacles be your guide because they lead you to places that you wouldn't have gone on your own. Instead of going through a rock, you go around it, creating a path.

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.

We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.

We have to adapt and overcome, that's all we can do.

'Adapt and overcome' is my new motto.

I'm somebody who finds adversity is almost as good as encouragement. It's almost like, you close the door, and I'll find ten ways to kick it in and go around it or dig under it or something.

If there are challenges thrown across, then some interesting, innovative solutions are found. Without challenges, the tendency is to go on the same way.

My biggest satisfaction was to learn, inexperienced as I was, that it is possible to find ways out of the deepest difficulties.

My biggest inspiration has been life for me. Basic survival has been my biggest teacher. Surviving in Mumbai for so many years has been a huge ordeal.

The hardest thing is when things are not going so well and you have got to dig in and get results.

It's good to try and learn how to adapt.

You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.

Every setback might be the very thing that makes you carry on and fight all the harder and become much better.

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

make away out of no way

Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.

I think that everybody does hustle in order to survive. That doesn't mean lying - it's more about how you handle situations.

When the path becomes difficult, that's no reason to give up. In fact, it means you're making real progress.

There are tough times and mountains to climb, but you've got to go for it.

Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.

The seed must grow regardless Of the fact that it’s planted in stone