Jimmy Iovine Quotes

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

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

I can focus on what seems to be the most boring things for days at a time.

I'm an all-or-nothing kind of person, and when I become interested in something, I give it my all.

Trust me, my runners aren't going to run one event while looking past it to the second event. When they get on the line for the 10K, that's a do-or-die situation for them.

You want something? Go get it with single-minded devotion.

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

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

Anything I've done that really worked happened because, either by sheer will or a lack of options, I was incredibly focused on one problem.

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

When you have your passion, you never even think about other things. It's tunnel vision. You go until you get it.

You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed. I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed.

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.

I can be horrifically single-minded.

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

Plow through the weeds. Go to the auditions and go to the meetings and be on time. Stop looking to the left or the right. Keep your head down and keep moving.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

I decided to do the maximum to hold onto the lead for as long as possible. That is why I pushed so hard from the beginning. I was at 100 percent concentration.

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.

Success demands singleness of purpose.

On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.

If you love something, you have to stay really focused and can't let outside things distract you.

Whatever it is that I am working on is what I become obsessed with.