Naveen Tewari Quotes

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

A lot of people give up just before they're about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.

Sometimes when the going gets tough, people give up.

Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.

That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another.

There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.

I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more than once trying to achieve a world record for boating or ballooning. But through a combination of luck and planning, both Virgin and I are still here.

Entrepreneurship is usually about people executing in the face of other folks telling them that it's not going to work.

You've got to push things and get bumps and bruises along the way.

As an entrepreneur, you are constantly playing in uncharted territory, and sometimes things don't work out. That doesn't mean you failed; it just means you may be off course.

Not everybody gets to play their first year or second year. Some people have to go through adversity.

You never know what kind of person you're going to be faced with, and you never know what kind of obstacles you're going to have to overcome.

Every entrepreneur knows how agonizingly difficult it is to make the decision to give it your all, knowing that failure is inevitable; the successful ones know that the only way to get back up is through learning from that failure.

Quests always have their ups and downs,' rumbled the giant. 'The point is never to give up, even if you're falling off a cliff. You never know what might happen on the way to the bottom.

When we got Tesla going at the very beginning, if you asked me what I thought the odds of success were, I would have said less than 50%. I would have said that failure is the most likely outcome.

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.

In business, you take a swing and you hope that you hit a home run, but sometimes you strike out. Strikeouts and failures are important. Being down, getting punched in the gut every once in a while by life and coming back up, that's accomplishment.

The trouble with most of us is that we stop trying in trying times.

The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!

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

The world loves to tell you how difficult things are, and the world's not exaggerating. But difficult doesn't mean impossible, and out of the bajillions of things in this universe that you can't control, what you can control is how hard you try, and if or when to pack it in.

Cross the creek on the stepping stones of your failures.

When something doesn't go exactly to plan, money is tight or a business is struggling - see it as a challenge rather than a failure. Look outside the box and try and find a solution - you'll be surprised how many great opportunities and possibilities arise when things look bad. You've just got to open your mind and not be afraid of sticking your neck out!

Every now and then you're going to get beaten, but we work hard.

The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under, but over.