Abstract. We give sufficient conditions for the existence of global small solutions to the quasilinear dissipative hyperbolic equationcorresponding to initial values and source terms of sufficiently small size, as well as of small solutions to the corresponding stationary version, i.e. the quasilinear elliptic equationWe then give conditions for the convergence, as t → ∞, of the solution of the evolution equation to its stationary state.