Gumption Quotes

Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn’t can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.

When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder. A lot of businessmen have been showing less sense than a hen since orders became scarce. They have laid off salesmen; they have stopped or reduced their advertising; they have simply resigned themselves to inaction and, of course, to pessimism. If a hen knows enough to scratch all the harder when the worms are scarce, surely businessmen ... ought to have gumption enough to scratch all the harder for business.

Just spunk won't be enough; you've got to have gumption.

When I was a kid, people who got divorced were people who had no gumption.

Everything will come in due course, if you have the gumption to wait for it.

You've got to have gumption. You've got to be willing to stand up on the stage for no money for ten years.

I admire many entrepreneurs. They bring energy, excitement, youthful enthusiasm. What they lack in process, they make up for in gumption.