Saying No Quotations

I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs.

The key to making money in angel investing is saying no. You meet with 100 companies and say no to 99 of them.

I try to combine my work with my family, that's what I aspire to. I don't say that's the only thing. It's not all work and family, because otherwise you would be saying no to the many other things in life and there are many other things.

I have had to learn about saying no.

Learn to say no in situations where saying no can be difficult, where it could mean getting fired. Say no anyway, because it could lead you to greater opportunities.

When I learn martial arts, my master will have me try a punch for a week and he will keep saying, 'No, you don't have it. No, that's not right.' When he finally says, 'Yes, you did it,' it's a wonderful moment. You worked on it. You got it.

People are afraid of failure - they don't like to work so hard and have people keep saying, 'No.' I think that's what people fear most.

I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions

The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.

We had an eyeball-to-eyeball agreement at a restaurant before I came back that, if I came back, he would never talk to me that way again or I was simply saying no.

Stop saying no offense,” I said, “when you say offensive things. It’s not a free pass.

I've never regretted saying no to anything, or finishing something. When I'm in the middle of doing something I love, I can have a better idea, and I'll go, "Oh God, I can't finish this." Maybe I've got some sort of disorder.

Saying no is so heartbreaking.

Saying no can be the ultimate self-care.

Choice means saying no to one thing so you can say yes to another.

Success depends on getting good at saying no without feeling guilty. You cannot get ahead with your own goals if you are always saying yes to someone else's projects. You can only get ahead with your desired lifestyle if you are focused on the things that will produce that lifestyle.

I'm a person who's fine saying 'No.' I like saying to myself, "no gossiping," "no nagging."

Peoples of the Americas are rising once again, saying no to imperialism, saying no to fascism, saying no to intervention - and saying no to death.

We conservatives don't have a corner on saying 'no'. We're just the ones who say it when it's the right thing to say.

I can sit in the room with the other writers and just keep saying no until there's something I really like or until I come up with something. In that respect the proportion of what's mine and what's other people's is controlled by me. It isn't even fair to talk about.

Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things.

Saying 'no' or even 'stop' is the hallmark of the professional you want on your team.

Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.

Oh, see then, the Simi is not in trouble. I just kill the Greek god and all’s fine. (Simi) You can’t kill a Greek god, Simi. It’s not allowed. (Acheron) There you go again, akri, saying no to the Simi. Don’t eat that, Simi. Don’t kill that, Simi. Stay here, Simi. Go to Katoteros, Simi, and wait for me to call you. I don’t like being told no, akri. (Simi)

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

I know people are saying they like you. I'm not being insulted or pushed around or anything. People are coming up because they like me. Nevertheless, I can't be everybody's....none of us can. I hate saying no to people.

I had to take responsibility, even if it meant saying no to an authority figure, because I was the authority on me.

Saying “no” has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined...

In the immortal words of Roberto Duran, we are saying, 'No mas!' We will educate students and then promote them, not the reverse

Hopeless cases: Executives who assert themselves by saying No when they should say Yes.

I need to learn how to start saying no. Like when someone says ‘please stop choking me.’

If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.

Somebody tells me no, they`re not going to keep telling me no, because I`m going to bother them to the point where it`s a lot easier for them to say yes than keep saying no.

I've spent years saying no to things. It's important to be selective with both projects and partners.

The power of saying no is so much more than the power of saying yes.

Every woman knows the art of saying no with the lips and yes with the rest

I have enjoyed life a lot more by saying "yes" than by sayings "no".

I'm a great believer in life to saying yes and not saying no, and hopefully making people smile and just having fun in life.

I'm a great believer that saying yes is a lot more fun than saying no.

Saying no to something is actually much more powerful than saying yes.

You're saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.

Just saying no to drugs is like just saying cheer up to a manic depressant

I remember saying to someone when I got one of those 'don't do it' comments - I just remember hearing my voice being calm and saying, 'No, it's going happen. It's going to happen. I'm just letting you know.'

All my integrity seemed to lie in saying No.

You're saying no ninety-seven times out of a hundred, and most founders find they have to make a very conscious effort to do this.

but you could also look at it the other way. Like you’re saying no matter how bad things are for you, I can still relate.

I have been accused of never saying no.

Saying ‘No’ does not always show a lack of generosity and that saying ‘Yes’ is not always a virtue

When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.

Innovation means saying 'no' to a thousand things.

Innovation is saying 'no' to 1,000 things.

Focus is about saying, No. And the result of that focus is going to be some really great products where the total is much greater than the sum of the parts.

Focusing is all about saying no