Russell Simmons Quotes

The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.

You don't achieve success by "taking it easy" or "working on it later." You achieve it thru persistence and hard work.

Actually, ambition won't get you that far. You'll shift gears. You'll see something that's shinier. But if you believe... then you're the long-distance runner.

One must work, nothing but work, and one must have patience.

Part of leadership (a big part of it actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time.

If you hang in there long enough, you will eventually reach your goal.

I think what endurance sports teach you is to stay dedicated, stay focused, and also to understand you're going to have ups and downs, but you need to keep running right through them.

When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.

To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.

I just keep working.

Success is all about persistence and doing the right thing for the long term.

The key to anyone's success is staying with it!

To be stronger, you finish everything you start. You can't take a break.

I'm kind of a grinder.

I don't want to leave the field for a little thing. I try to be ready every day.

The book Relentless' is an awesome book. It taught me a lot about just staying consistent, being level-headed, being relentless at what you want to do.

One of the things that I like to pride myself on is being the guy who sees the game through till the end.

The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it would not be the path.

It's amazing how far you will get by just staying with something long enough. Most people give up too early.

What I did have, which others perhaps didn't, was a capacity for sticking at it, which really is the point, not the talent at all. You have to stick at it.

Faithfulness is not doing something right once but doing something right over and over and over and over.

The commitment. I think that's the key quality of all successful people. You just have to keep at it. People who enjoy sustained success understand the fact that you have to remain very committed to whatever it is you're doing, especially in this instant-gratification culture.

It’s not what you do some of the time that counts, it’s what you do all of the time that counts.

Talent is long patience.

Sticking to it is the genius.