Bob Parsons Quotes

As you step every day and we're going to see challenges, we going to see failures, we should certainly learn from the failures and be gracious with our successes too as well.

An important part of leadership is being able to hold two things in your mind at once: Dealing with the reality, whatever it may be, and focus on hope for the future. Any leader helping an organization through challenges needs to be able to do both.

Dont give up. Obstacles can be overcome through strategy and learning.

I chose to be in this job and things don't always go your way. But I'll keep going. As a manager you have to be optimistic and think things are going to get better.

When problems confront successful leaders, they get excited about the opportunity.

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.

Successful people don't have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

Learning to expect problems saved me from a lot of wasted energy. Winners see problems as just another way to prove themselves.

Obstacles are only opportunities to succeed or fail; how we handle them determines what will happen.

The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.

Facing difficulties is inevitable. Learning from them is optional.

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

Common sense would suggest that having ability, like being smart, inspires confidence. It does, but only while the going is easy. The deciding factor in life is how you handle setbacks and challenges. People with a growth mindset welcome setbacks with open arms.

I learned another lesson from Jack Welch. It was in 1998, and at that time, we were one of the most valuable companies in the world. I said, 'Jack, what does it take to have a great company?' And he said, 'It takes major setbacks and overcoming those.'

I definitely thrive off adversity. I know it's always up from there.

Everywhere I have been, I have always found a way to make it happen.

In life, you're going to have things that are going to come up against you. You can either let it get to you, or you can make something happen.

It's a tough world out there. You're going to prepare yourself for politics, bad bosses, hating employees - and usually when you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most.

Young people can understand, and must understand, that we had success, we had failures, but we never gave up. We never gave in. We never became bitter. We didn't hate. We continued to press on. And that's what we're saying: There are some ups, there are some downs, and when you're not down, you must have the capacity and the ability to get up and keep going.

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

The mantra I used was 'find a way.'