perseverance Quotes

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.

While some doubted that connecting the world was actually important, we were building. While others doubted that this would be sustainable, you were forming lasting connections. We just cared more about connecting the world than anyone else. And we still do today.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn't smooth. You'll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don't believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don't give up.

It's, like, even in journeys like Facebook, we've had some very serious ups and downs.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

The painter Sidney Nolan once told me I tried too hard. Advice I've been trying hard to follow ever since.

The Christian Armenian story was the Polish Jewish story. The efforts of the Armenians to stay alive in Musa Dagh chimed with those struggling to survive the ghetto.

If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.

I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.