Quotes About Initiative

the only thing that gets results is action. Not a single ounce of greatness in history ended with thoughts. It happened with hands. With actions.

Take control of whom you report to, what you do, and what you create. Don't just do what's listed in your job description.

Even if you aren't an expert, give yourself permission to be a producer. Produce!

If there is no wind, you must learn to row.   —Polish Proverb

There's a lot to be done," he told them. "Look around, see what it is, and do it.

Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.

My program intends to outsource tree plantation to uneducated rural men and women with a monthly salary of Rs5,000 for barely an hour's work.

What America is thirsting for now is a battalion of strong, down-to-earth 'doers' - managers, frontline activists, business and social entrepreneurs engaged in tackling America's manifold problems of unemployment, education, and competitive slouch.

To tackle the scourge of young unemployment we need to be ambitious.

Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.

My ideas will not be discussed, they will be executed.

Great ideas doesn't need approvals, they need application.

Be the person that will take the first step towards personal success. You will be remembered for it.

Although a decision is often viewed as the turning point, it is action that creates tangible results.

When you were making excuses someone else was making enterprise.

Leadership is the ability to make things happen.

A lantern can give you light only when you light it

The time of neutrality is over, this is the time of intervention where we can learn to grab the bull by the horns.

To plan and talk is good but to plan and take action is even greater.

I'm always looking for people on the other side of the aisle for any initiative I'm sponsoring - men and women - to move things forward.

I realized, if I don't step into the spotlight, and the person next to me doesn't step in, and the people around me don't step in, then who will?

The most important initiative you could take to improve the world economy would be to stabilize the dollar-euro rate.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

There's a difference between standing up and telling people what you're planning to do and standing up and going and accomplishing something.