perseverance Quotes

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

'For Whom the Bell Tolls' was a problem which I carried on each day. I knew what was going to happen in principle. But I invented what happened each day I wrote.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

I rewrote the ending to 'Farewell to Arms,' the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.

A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last.

What's dangerous is not to evolve.

Our motto at Blue Origin is 'Gradatim Ferociter': 'Step by Step, Ferociously.'

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.