Challenging Quotations..

• We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.
  Paul Allen # Challenging, Ambition, Strong, Difficult Quotes
• We're getting hurt, but I'm a long-term investor.
  Prince Alwaleed # Challenging, Investing, Ambition Quotes
• It is hope in this wider sense which enabled my father to build, from scratch, one of India's largest modern enterprises. His was an undertaking powered by hard work, initiative, self-belief but, above all else, the capacity, as he would often say, "to dream with your eyes wide open".
  Anil Ambani # Hope, Ambition, Entrepreneur, Strong, Dream, Challenging, Work Quotes
• My view is to give everyone the space to grow in his own way. When you see restructuring or separations in a family [firm], value has almost always been destroyed. This is the first case where value has been enhanced. In that way it has been a win-win ending.
  Mukesh Ambani # Problems, Challenging, Employee, Business, Value Quotes
• Oprah told me, People are going to feel like they know you because you're on TV every single day. Get ready for it.
  Tyra Banks # Media, Famous, Challenging, Result Quotes
• There has never been a lot of money for black models in that world, because all the money was in advertising, in the campaigns and black models rarely got those so my wages would be... I’d be getting so much less than the other girls and I thought that was just so wrong.
  Tyra Banks # Money, Business, Advertising, Challenging, Difficult, Career Quotes
• For families living in extreme poverty, who struggle each day and whose children are placed in care for economic and social reasons, this could be considered a joke. We could certainly have a better quality of life by, for example, spending a night at the opera.
  Jose Manuel Barroso # Family, Poverty, Challenging, Economic, Quality, Life Quotes
• I think a lot of people were under the impression that property development was a way of becoming a millionaire in six months, while doing nothing, and I don’t think that's the case. And I'm not sure it ever has been, really.
  Sarah Beeny # Real Estate, Millionaire, Time Management, Action, Ambition, Challenge Quotes
• Economics has many substantive areas of knowledge where there is agreement but also contains areas of controversy. That's inescapable.
  Ben Bernanke # Economic, Knowledge, Conflict, Challenging Quotes
• Good ideas will always get funded, so that's not going to be a problem. But you will see that it will be harder and harder for bad ideas to get funded.
  Jeff Bezos # Good, Idea, Bad, Challenging, Problem Quotes
• Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.
  Tony Blair # Challenging, Change Quotes
• We can't do everything. It would have been nice if we could have, but we can't. And I think everybody here understands that.
  Michael Bloomberg # Challenging Quotes
• I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.
  Michael Bloomberg # Great, Challenging, Job, World, Government Quotes
• I've always worked very, very hard, and the harder I worked, the luckier I got.
  Alan Bond # Work, Challenging, Achievement, Lucky Quotes
• I found that in prison that I had more time to read the Bible, I had more time to contemplate life, and more time to look upon my fellow man. And I worked very hard during the period in there to help other people in the same situation. And I think that even in the most dastardly people, there is a goodness there, and you've got to find that goodness.
  Alan Bond # Challenging, Bible, Work, Help, Spiritual, Life Quotes
• My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had.. every day I'm learning something new.
  Richard Branson # Learning, Life, Education, Challenging Quotes
• I found myself in a weird world in which I had to fight off a growing number of attacks that arrived from every side without warning.
  Richard Branson # Weird, Competition, Challenging Quotes
• Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.
  Bob Brown # Success, Challenging, Achievement, Life, Experience Quotes
• I want to be the voice of change and hope. I want to confront the big challenges this country faces.
  David Cameron # Changes, Hope, Challenges, Ambition, Strong Quotes
• One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them.
  Steve Case # Customers, Challenging, Selling, Business Quotes
• If you are small and face overwhelming opposition, you must find a way to spend half the effort to obtain twice the result.
  Chin-Ning Chu # Challenging, Competition, Action Quotes
• If you are small and wish to take on the big, the first step you need to plan before you wage your challenge is your path of escape.
  Chin-Ning Chu # Planning, Challenging, Competition Quotes
• In fact, nothing is hard or easy. Competition for survival is the condition of life.
  Chin-Ning Chu # Life, Competition, Challenging Quotes
• One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
  Winston Churchill # Courage, Challenging, Encouragement Quotes
• There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
  Winston Churchill # Challenging, Life, Difficult Quotes
• The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.
  Hillary Clinton # Changes, Challenging, Future, Responsibility Quotes
• The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
  Hillary Clinton # Challenging, Politics Quotes
• As any businessperson knows, a firm's survival is never guaranteed; year, month by month, a variety of hazards must be confronted- even when profit alone is the goal.
  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi # Business, Profit, Company, Challenging, Goal Quotes
• The ideal condition can be expressed by the simple formula: Flow occurs when both challenges and skills are high and equal to each other.
  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi # Challenging, Skill Quotes
• As skills improve, one is able to take on greater challenges.
  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi # Skill, Improvement, Challenging Quotes
• The more a person feels skilled, the more her moods will improve; while the more challenges that are present, the more her attention will become focused and concentrated.
  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi # Skill, Improvement, Challenging, Focus Quotes
• One will quickly grow tired of any job if its challenges remain at the same level.
  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi # Job, Challenging, Growth Quotes
• In today's world it is primarily businesses that have the power and the responsibility to make our lives comfortable and secure. But how many firms are actually taking up this challenge?
  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi # World, Business, Power, Responsibility, Life, Challenging Quotes
• Most people think it's all about the idea. It's not. EVERYONE has ideas. The hard part is doing the homework to know if the idea could work in an industry, then doing the preparation to be able to execute on the idea.
  Mark Cuban # Thinking, Idea, Difficult, Challenging, Business Quotes
• In business, one of the challenges is making sure that your product is the easiest to experience and complete a sale.
  Mark Cuban # Business, Challenging, Products, Smart Quotes
• Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.
  Princess Diana # Inspirational, Challenging, Difficult, Help, Philanthropy Quotes
• The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.
  Princess Diana # Society, Positive, Challenging, Strong, Help, Love Quotes
• Courage is the main quality of leadership, in my opinion, no matter where it is exercised. Usually it implies some risk — especially in new undertakings.
  Walt Disney # Encouragement, Quality, Leadership, Challenging, Courage, Risk Quotes
• We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. We're always exploring and experimenting.
  Walt Disney # Success, Organization, Action, Challenging, Change Quotes
• Understanding our strengths, articulating our values, knowing where we belong -- these are also essential to addressing one of the great challenges of organizations: improving the abysmally low productivity of knowledge workers.
  Peter Drucker # Great, Strong, Value, Knowledge, Challenging, Improvement, Work, Understanding Quotes
• If you're soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, and people in this business don't mind kicking sand in your face.
  Michael Eisner # Competition, Challenging, Business, Smart Quotes
• Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.
  Michael Eisner # Success, Experience, Failure, Life, Challenging Quotes
• When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.
  Larry Ellison # Innovative, Challenging, Problem Quotes
• The Net as a whole is not that reliable, so our blips in service don't cause major problems. However, we are certainly working on improving our own reliability as well as those sites that we depend on.
  David Filo # Internet, Challenging, Problems, Improvement Quotes
• Nothing is particularly hard, as long as you divide it into small jobs.
  Henry Ford # Encouragement, Challenging Quotes
• When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
  Henry Ford # Challenging, Encouragement, Motivational Quotes
• Seven sins of life: Politics without principle. Commerce without morality. Wealth without work. Education without character. Science without humanity. Pleasure without conscience. Worship without sacrifice.
  Mahatma Gandhi # Life, Politics, Challenging, Religion, Inspirational, Education, Work Quotes
• The future is unfolding before our eyes. Canada’s Inuits see it in disappearing Arctic ice and permafrost. Australians see it in fatal heatwaves and extended droughts. Scientists see it in tree rings, ancient coral and bubbles trapped in icicles. All of these things reveal that the world has not been as warm as it is now for a millennium or more, and that the last years have been the hottest on record.
  Peter Garrett # Future, Global Warming, Climate Change, Challenging, Science, Serious Quotes
• The challenge for governments is to adopt policies that address the increasing energy demand but within the long-term context of climate change. Many elements can be considered: ways of making coal cleaner; rapidly developing and supporting a suite of renewable energy technologies with an emphasis on increased energy efficiency; carbon caps and trading; and, of course, looking hard at ways of reducing and localising energy demand.
  Peter Garrett # Government, Challenging, Climate Change, Politics, Technology, Energy, Carbon Quotes
• We need to break out of the mind-set that getting information and moving information around is difficult and expensive.
  Bill Gates # Information, Challenging, Change Quotes
• Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.
  Bill Gates # Internet, Challenging, Rich, Fun Quotes
• We're at the point now where the challenge isn't how to communicate effectively with e-mail, it's ensuring that you spend your time on the e-mail that matters most.
  Bill Gates # Communication, Internet, Challenging, Time Management Quotes
• I drive myself pretty hard to make sure everything gets done perfectly, and exactly when it's supposed to. Sometimes I'm just too driven in that respect. It's too much of a burden.
  Shakti Gawain # Challenging, Life, Difficult Quotes
• If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises are built from the ground up.
  Lou Gerstner # Life, Buying, Success, Company, Challenging, Improvement, Difficult Quotes
• Never try to take a fortified hill, especially if the Army on top is bigger than you are.
  William Hewlett # Challenging, Smart Quotes
• Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.
  Adolf Hitler # Life, Fighting, World, Challenging Quotes
• There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
  Lee Iacocca # Work, Challenging, Difficult Quotes
• God has not promised Skies always blue, Flower-strewn pathways All our life through; God has not promised Sun without rain, Joy without sorrow, Peace without pain.
  Abdul Kalam # God, Promise, Challenges, Life, Enjoyment, Peace Quotes
• If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.
  Paul Keating # Good, Risk, Challenging, Action Quotes
• In our common struggle, I rely heavily on the vibrant energy, talent and courage of people across the length of the country, but for my words to be heard all over Russia and all over the world, I need to run in Moscow.
  Mikhail Khodorkovsky # Challenging, Courage, Talent, Politics Quotes
• The real issue is the changes you go through internally and who you become in the process. For some people, the process is easy. For others, the journey is impossible.
  Robert Kiyosaki # Change, Inspirational, Challenging Quotes
• One of the hardest things a person who is new to the way of business thinking has to go through is the countless number of people who will say to you: "You can't do that."
  Robert Kiyosaki # Thinking, Business, Encouragement, Challenging Quotes
• There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.
  Phil Knight # Conflict, Life, Work, Challenging, Difficult Quotes
• We have learned a great deal about this kind of effort.
  Dave Liniger # Great, Learning, Challenging, Smart Quotes
• Getting sore at the market doesn’t get you anywhere.
  Jesse Livermore # Learning, Stock Market, Challenging, Smart Quotes
• Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
  Vince Lombardi # Difficult, Leadership, Challenging, Achievement, Experience Quotes
• We succeeded to take our last steps to freedom in conditions of relative peace. We commit ourselves to the construction of a complete, just and lasting peace. We have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the millions of our people.
  Nelson Mandela # Freedom, Success, Challenging, Peace, Achievement, Society Quotes
• There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
  Nelson Mandela # Action, Challenging, Difficult, Freedom, Encouragement, Death Quotes
• After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
  Nelson Mandela # Challenging, Motivational, Difficult, Life Quotes
• In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
  Nelson Mandela # Politics, Challenging, Achievement Quotes
• Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another and suffer the indignity of being the skunk of the world. Let freedom reign!
  Nelson Mandela # Experience, Commitment, Freedom, Challenging Quotes
• Remember two things. Firstly, even your best client is going to get into trouble - after all, they are only human. Secondly, even in your wildest dreams, you will never be able to predict where, when or how.
  Max Markson # Clients, Challenging Quotes
• So often, we blame other people when, really, the problem is right down in here. I'm not happy. I don't know what's wrong. If I just had another job, I could be happy. If I just get married, I would be happy. Well if I just wasn't married, I would be happy. Well, if I just had some kids, I'll be happy. I'll be happy when these kids finally grow up and get out of here. If I had a bigger house, I would be happy. Well, I got a big house. Now if I just had a maid to clean, I'd be happy. Well, now if I just had a maid, I could get along with better, I'd be happy.
  Joyce Meyer # Blame, Problems, Happy, Challenging, Thinking Quotes
• I had lots of hurt and lots of pain, lots of woundedness, bruises, broken heartedness in my life. I was abused sexually by my father, abused mentally, emotionally. My mom didn't know what to do about it, and she was being hurt in the process. So she just didn't deal with it. And I can guarantee you, just because you don't deal with something, that doesn't make it go away.
  Joyce Meyer # Experience, Encouragement, Challenging, Emotional, Problems Quotes
• Everyone has an opinion and today the Internet allows everyone to express that opinion and it becomes very difficult for an individual.
  Michael Milken # Internet, Technology, Thinking, Challenging Quotes
• For those of us who have lost loved ones in their prime - as I did when my father and other relatives succumbed - even one of those years would have been a precious gift.
  Michael Milken # Love, Experience, Challenging Quotes
• Everything is a struggle, everything requires courage, effort. There is no response to history without effort, and effort is required because everything is difficult: passions, interests, rivalries, mankind just emerging from prehistory. Just look around us. Yes, history is tragic.
  Francois Mitterrand # Challenging, Passion, Difficulty Quotes
• Build a platform - prepare for the unexpected... …And you'll know you're successful when the platform you've built serves you in unexpected ways.
  Pierre Omidyar # Challenging, Success, Result Quotes
• I grew up thinking that because I couldn't read, I was stupid and would never amount to anything. I worked my way through college as a waitress and thought I wasn't capable of doing anything else. My grades in English were horrible, and I barely got through.
  Suze Orman # Thinking, Encouragement, Challenging, Education Quotes
• I'll never forget when I was a waitress at the Buttercup Bakery for seven years in Berkeley, and how afraid I was to do anything other than just be a waitress.
  Suze Orman # Challenging, Fear Quotes
• It often takes tremendous courage just to keep going, to work hard to pay the bills every month, to meet the next financial or emotional challenge that comes along.
  Suze Orman # Challenging, Work, Finance, Courage, Emotional Quotes
• When it comes to money, if you have it, you may feel that you don't deserve it--guilt. If you don't have it, you may feel that you should have it--guilt.
  Suze Orman # Money, Challenging Quotes
• You appear to have a good project... we wish you well in this endeavor.
  David Packard # Idea, Ambition, Luck, Encouragement, Challenging, Difficult Quotes
• We need to make sure we have the best people we can in our operations, and that is a constant challenge. There is always room to improve.
  James Packer # Best, Challenging, Improvement, Employee Quotes
• We must remain focused on the greatest threat to the security of the United States, the clear and present danger of terrorism. We know what we must do to protect America, but this Administration is failing to meet the challenge. Democrats have a better way to ensure our homeland security.
  Nancy Pelosi # Focus, Great, Protection, America, Terrorist, Challenging, Failure, Government, Party Quotes
• I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems.
  James Cash Penney # Belief, Hard Work, Life, Challenging Quotes
• No man can climb the ladder of success without first placing his foot on the bottom rung.
  James Cash Penney # Success, Achievement, Challenging Quotes
• The challenge is to view every element of every operation through the customer's lens, to constantly attempt to redefine each element of the business in terms of the customer's perceptions.
  Tom Peters # Challenging, Customers, Business, Change Quotes
• Some of the most tragic, hurtful events cause people to rise from the ashes and say, "I will not succumb."
  Dr.Phil # Challenging, Inspirational, Life Quotes
• Educate yourself. Marriage is a partnership, and both individuals need to be well-informed. Many problems — especially when it comes to money — stem from lack of knowledge.
  Dr.Phil # Education, Self, Money, Challenging, Knowledge Quotes
• Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.
  Colin Powell # Fear, Challenging, Encouragement Quotes
• The early years were more about learning than about acting. I had to carry on my father’s work, which was a big challenge.
  Azim Premji # Learning, Action, Challenging, Work Quotes
• The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.
  Vladimir Putin # Society, Experience, Freedom, Challenging Quotes
• There are bends in the road, rapids in the river, that snare people time and time again. There are experiences that consistently prevent people from being all they can be.
  Tony Robbins # Challenging Quotes
• Get fascinated by what you can learn that could help you handle this challenge not only today, but in the future, in a way that consumes very little time or energy and actually creates joy.
  Tony Robbins # Learning, Challenging, Happy Quotes
• There are no bad experiences. No matter what I go through in life - whether it's a challenging experience or a pleasurable one- every experience provides me something of value if I look for it.
  Tony Robbins # Experience, Life, Optimistic, Challenging Quotes
• I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
  John Rockefeller # Challenging, Opportunity, Smart Quotes
• The key to handling problems and conflict within an organization is to keep the channels of communication wide open.
  Anita Roddick # Problems, Management, Communication, Challenging Quotes
• We were vulnerable because we were so high profile. We were openly challenging the system, challenging the role of business.
  Anita Roddick # Business, Challenging, Criticism Quotes
• My personal reaction to the crisis was to eat like a pig. Anything and everything.
  Anita Roddick # Crisis, Challenging Quotes
• Running a company is rather like a marriage. When it's going well, it's fantastic. When it's not, it's absolutely miserable.
  Anita Roddick # Company, Management, Business, Challenging Quotes
• Success and social promotion are not some right that anybody can claim after queuing at some [government office]. It is better: it is a right, a right that one can merit because of one's sweat.
  Nicolas Sarkozy # Success, Human Rights, Politics, Challenging, Government Quotes
• I am in good shape, and can rise to the opportunities and challenges of our times, and I embrace each project with enthusiasm.
  Li Ka Shing # Good, Opportunity, Challenging Quotes
• The most challenging issue raised by globalization is how we can all get along with each other in our race against time.
  Li Ka Shing # World, Challenging Quotes
• I run my operation like a family business. I sign every check, every receipt, I’m not tough, but I’m strong.
  Ivana Trump # Business, Organization, Strong, Challenging Quotes
• I just love it when people say I can't do it, there's nothing that makes me feel better [than proving them wrong] because all my life, people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
  Ted Turner # Love, Challenging, Ambition, Achievement, Success Quotes
• I don't give a damn if we get a little bureaucracy as long as we get the results. If it bothers you, yell at it. Kick it. Scream at it. Break it!
  Jack Welch # Risk, Challenging Quotes
• Again, your challenge is not just to improve. It is to break the service paradigm in your industry or market so that customers aren’t just satisfied, they’re so shocked that they tell strangers on the street how good you are.
  Jack Welch # Challenging, Improvement, Customers, Marketing Quotes
• In bad times, the rich usually get richer.
  Stuart Wilde # Rich, Challenging Quotes
• If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.
  Woodrow Wilson # Elections, Challenging, Party, Politics Quotes
• It's hard for me to give up everything.
  Oprah Winfrey # Challenging Quotes
• I have developer's disease. I love to sit at a drafting table and draw plans for hotels, wrestling with problems of traffic and the flow of people. That's what turns me on.
  Steve Wynn # Improvement, Challenging, Interesting Quotes
• I want to apologize for our unfulfilled dreams. What we thought would be easy has proved painfully difficult. I would like to apologize for having failed to justify the hopes of the people who believed that we would be able to make a leap from the gloomy and stagnant totalitarian past to a bright, prosperous and civilized future at just one go.
  Boris Yeltsin # Dreams, Experience, Freedom, Failure, Hopes, Communism, Future, Challenging Quotes
• I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.
  Boris Yeltsin # Understanding, Difficult, Emotional, Experience, Learning, Crisis, Challenging Quotes
• Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
  Zig Ziglar # Selling, Money, Trust, Challenging Quotes

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