Quotes About Initiative

Christmas is a really special day since I support the initiative 'Helping Hands' and I celebrate Christmas with the kids there. I take them to a place they would enjoy, like a hotel or fun zone and spend time with them as we play together and I become Santa for them.

I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.

Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them.

The man who has done nothing but wait for his ship to come in has already missed the boat.

God helps them that helps themselves.

What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.

A committee of one gets things done.

If Columbus had had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.

The soul of dispatch is decision.

There comes a time when you've got to say, "Let's get off our asses and go ..." I have always found that if I move with 75 percent or more of the facts I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.

Heaven ne'er helps the man who will not help himself.

Something must happen!

The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion.

The rewards in business go to the man who does something with an idea.

Don't wait for your "ship to come in," and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small.

Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come; you have to get up and make them.

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.