Max Levchin Quotes

Many of my biggest business endeavors were failures before they became a success. Some failed for as long as six years before they hit. Everyone around me thought I was crazy. You just have to stay at it.

I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

Perseverance is the key to starting a successful business.

It doesn't matter how many times you fail. It doesn't matter how many times you almost get it right. No-one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you. All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.

My training of cold-calling and everyone under the sun telling me no, and my keeping going, was a huge part of the first two years of Spanx.

Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn't achieved without it.

My first company failed completely. And it failed at about ten months old. I had about 12 months of savings, so when it failed I was thinking: 'Do I go back to work?' And at that point I believed so deeply in what I was doing that I couldn't imagine anything else other than trying to make this business work.

Even entrepreneurs with the best ideas sometimes need a little wind beneath their wings.

WeWork is my fifth venture. I failed in my first, second and third, had mediocre success in the fourth.

I know there's pros and cons to Trump, and people talk crap that he's had a lot of failed businesses, but failing a lot sometimes means you've tried more. And a lot of those people have succeeded more times than they failed.

If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least 10 times.

Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

The most successful people in American life are those that have had horrific failures and have come back, done it again and again until they got it right, whether it's Steve Jobs or Bill Gates or Warren Buffet.

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.

I also know, as an entrepreneur myself, you face new obstacles every day and you need to have the perseverance to see them through.

The reason I do Shark Tank isn't to try take make more money of the deals, even though every deal I want to make money off of and even more so I want the entrepreneurs to be very successful and make money, but Shark Tank sends a message to everybody that the American Dream is alive and well.

All great success is preceded by failure.

If you FAIL, never give up because F.A.I.L. means "First Attempt in Learning". END is not the end; in fact E.N.D. means "Effort Never Dies". If you get NO as an answer, remember N.O. means "Next Opportunity".

We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying!

Lampis the ship owner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor.

I started with shoes, and with hard work and discipline, the business prospered. I moved to the department store business and again, things went well.

The key to success in any kind of start up is your level of persistence. It's not so much your intellect. The Zuckerburg's, Pages and Brins, that succeed have such a level of belief in what they are doing that they will put up with the kind of crap that most people won't put up with, they are incredibly persistent and resilient.

Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.

LEARN FROM FAILURE. If you are an entrepreneur and your first venture wasn't a success, welcome to the club.

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.