You get some success. You run into some walls. And it's how tenacious you are, how irrepressible, how ultimately optimistic and tenacious you are about it that will determine your success.
speech graduation perseverance
Steve Ballmer
University of Southern California Commencement, 2011, 2011
Passion is the thing that you find in your life that you can care about, that you can cling to, that you can invest yourself in, heart, body, and soul.
speech graduation passion
Steve Ballmer
University of Southern California Commencement, 2011, 2011