Jason Calacanis Quotes

Just go out there and do it. It's not the easiest path.

You can look at it and say I'm doing this better or that better, but the bottom line is, I just learned to be mentally tougher.

I don't really know what the prerequisites are for Bollywood, but I do believe I can be successful in anything I choose to do.

I think, as a founder and entrepreneur, you just keep hustling through it.

I just want to keep working hard. I just want to keep improving myself. And I just want to prove people that I can play in the real game.

I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.

I have always liked a challenge.

You know, it sounds corny, but I believe in myself. And I work hard.

I can honestly say that I've done everything I've wanted to do, always. Not without difficulty. But every time I wanted to do something, I just did it, from the age of 18 when I started my own theater with my friends. When I decided I wanted to act. I just bit the bullet.

I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.

I have always worked hard, and seeing so many Icelanders make tremendous efforts to cope with difficult tasks and decisions inspires me.

I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.

You can make your own way. It's about getting out there and not letting rejection get you down.

No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.

Don't wait for your ship to come in. Swim out to it.

The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could.

I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.

Every job I take, within minutes I'm thinking, 'I can't do this.' I think it's what makes me work. People think I just swagger in and do it. But I doubt myself all the time. It's what pushes me, what makes me work harder. The older I get, the less I take for granted.

I am the product of hustlers who taught me how to do it. They gave me a hustler's ambition. Not a bad thing to get from your parents. But hustling only gets you so far. You have to trust yourself. And you have to be ready to fall on your face and be okay when it happens.

My mother didn't baby me, and I think that helped me out thus far to keep my drive and my hunger. I don't take 'no' for an answer.

I train hard every day, I don't know what the word 'impossible' means.

When I was young, I would try to give the right answers. 'I'm going to try to slide.' But at the end of the day, I finally realized that I am going to do whatever it takes. I'm going to leave everything out there.

It takes an inner strength to succeed.

I always question myself, but I always say, 'Come on, we can do something good.'