Nicolas Sarkozy Quotes

The biggest hurdle is rejection. Any business you start, be ready for it. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is the successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don't want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your face, go to door number 11 enthusiastically, with a smile on your face.

I think the most important trait for an entrepreneur is persistence. When you try to do something new and difficult, you are more likely to fail than to succeed.

Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

You can't afford to be afraid of failure in this business.

Good things don't happen by coincidence. Every dream carries with it certain risks, especially the risk of failure. But I am not stopped by risks. Supposed a great person takes the risk and fails. Then the person must try again. You cannot fail forever. If you try ten times, you have a better chance of making it on the eleventh try than if you didn't try at all.

What's the worst that can happen? If it doesn't do well I can put on my big girl panties, deal with it and move on.

If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.

I know I'm not going to book everything I go in on, and that's just the nature of the business. You have to keep hustling and not get down on it. You have to keep at it and find your way in. Everybody's story is different.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Don't be afraid to fail. You're going to go on a million auditions, and most of them you won't get. It's very easy to think, 'This is not going to work for me,' but keep at it. It's very generic advice, but you have to be willing to keep yourself in the game.

Be talented enough to make it and stupid enough to keep trying.

Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.

Shoot for the moon - if you miss you'll end up in the stars.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.

I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.

The starkest rejection letter might be followed by a million-dollar advance. Don't let rejection start to look the same as failure.

What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.

I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.

I think our chances are not looking great today but the only way to fail for me is just not to try.

You only have to be right once.