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Quotes About Initiative

I've set up businesses. I've set up charities. I have actually done the work myself.
~ Andrea Leadsom
As an entrepreneur, I like cutting to the chase and getting things done.
~ Tulsi Tanti
We want people who work for us to be entrepreneurs. We like them to look at ideas. We like them to chase ideas. We like them to not be what I call a caretaker of an asset.
~ Ivan Glasenberg
Sometimes we just sit around and sit on our hands and don't do anything because it's like, 'Hey, that's not my problem.' You can't do that when you're a superhero.
~ Mike Colter
The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
~ Abbie Hoffman
Supporting the entrepreneurial spirit is our best chance for economic progress.
~ Scott Peters
I suppose I arrived at my charitable commitment largely through guilt. I recognized early on that my good fortune was not due to superior personal character or initiative so much as it was to dumb luck.
~ George Kaiser
If you're not getting work, make your own work. I think that's a good mentality. I suppose I take my drive from my mother and my practicality from my father.
~ Sophie Kennedy Clark
My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.
~ Roz Savage
I want to be surprised by what people do, I don't want to work with people who need to be told what to do. I want people to show me what they've got.
~ Dave Holland
Disaster doesn't sort us out by preferences; it drags us into emergencies that require we act, and act altruistically, bravely, and with initiative in order to survive or save the neighbors, no matter how we vote or what we do for a living.
~ Rebecca Solnit
The first was the rapidity of the improvisation of order out of chaos." He described how people took initiative, without leadership or coordination
~ Rebecca Solnit
James's investigation concluded that human beings respond with initiative, orderliness, and helpfulness; they remain calm; and suffering and loss are transformed when they are shared experiences.
~ Rebecca Solnit
But disaster doesn't sort us out by preferences; it drags us into emergencies that require we act, and act altruistically, bravely, and with initiative in order to survive or save the neighbors, no matter how we vote or what we do for a living.
~ Rebecca Solnit
They're brutal, moronic, they have the ethical consciousness of apes and the initiative levels of sheep. But you took the field against the reptiles for them nonetheless. Why?" Ringil
~ Richard K. Morgan
I was anxious to take some action that I could control; to establish something that was mine alone.
~ Julie Andrews Edwards
A year from now you may wish you had started today.
~ Karen Lamb
A year from now you will wish you had started today
~ Karen Lamb
Donald Trump is man of action.
~ Kellyanne Conway
I was in the Navy as an enlisted man, started my first business when I was 21.
~ Rick Scott
In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
~ Carla Bruni
We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.
~ Elbert Hubbard
The man who sees an opportunity and does nothing is asleep with his eyes open.
~ Brian Herbert
A man descending is propelled by inertia; the only initiative left him is whether or not he decides to enjoy the passing scene.
~ Guy Vanderhaeghe