Quotes About Initiative

My experience working the KKK assignment influenced the rest of my career in law enforcement in that it taught me to think and act on my own initiative when my superiors in the department stood in my way.

I had my first flower stall when I was seven, at the end of the drive in Minehead, Somerset. Nobody was stopping so I moved it to my neighbour's drive, because I thought: 'Location, location, location.' It worked.

You don't wait to be told, you don't waver from your goal. When it's time to act, you act, instinctively and without hesitation. As you will read in these pages: Done. Next.

Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitate to get in the way if you're moving.

Don't save it all for the end. There is every reason not to.

Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitant to get in the way if you're moving.

Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!

I will often write "GO FIRST" in my morning journal as a daily prompt.

Stop wishing and start doing.

People are nicer than they look, but you have to go first. This made me think of a line from fictional character Raylan Givens in the TV series Justified: "If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole." I will often write "GO FIRST" in my morning journal as a daily prompt.

La gente lista debería hacer cosas».

I wish I would have known that there was no need to wait.

Don't provoke deliberation before you can take action.

Practica el juego de «yo primero» GABBY: «Siempre me digo que yo seré la primera… Eso significa que si voy a pagar en una tienda, yo saludaré primero. Si me cruzo con alguien y hay contacto visual, yo seré la primera en sonreír. [Ojalá] la gente probara a hacer eso un poquito en su día a día: sé el primero, porque (no siempre, pero la mayoría de las veces) te beneficiará.

Practice Going First GABBY: "I always say that I'll go first. . . . That means if I'm checking out at the store, I'll say hello first. If I'm coming across somebody and make eye contact, I'll smile first. [I wish] people would experiment with that in their life a little bit: Be first, because—not all times, but most times—it comes in your favor. The response is pretty amazing.

But not until I started PayPal did I fully realize that you don't have to wait to start something. So if you're planning to do something with your life, if you have a 10-year plan of how to get there, you should ask: Why can't you do this in 6 months?

Zami?owanie do krz?taniny to jeszcze nie przedsi?biorczo??.

The only way to truly learn something is by doing it. Yes, listen to guidance. But don't wait.

Si te remontas veinte o veinticinco años, me habría gustado saber que no había ninguna necesidad de esperar. Fui a la universidad. Fui a la facultad de Derecho. Trabajé en el mundo de la abogacía y de la banca, aunque no durante una cantidad terrible de tiempo. Pero hasta que inicié PayPal no me di cuenta por completo de que no tienes que esperar para emprender algo.

How do you know if you have A-players on your project team? You know it if they don't just accept the strategy you hand them. They should suggest modifications to the plan based on their closeness to the details.

sir.' The implication is obvious: If I have problems, I'm going to handle them. I'm going to take care of them, and I'm not going to complain. I took extreme ownership of my world. The way that worked was twofold. When I did need something, it was something significant, it was something real. And when I told the Commodore, 'Hey, boss, we need this right here,' I would get it almost instantaneously

what all of this comes down to is whether you are on offense or defense. I

too much brooding, not enough doing.

We are in the presence," said Winston Churchill, "of a crime without a name." Its perpetrators were human beings, operating with initiative and creativity in political circumstances of their own making. State destruction did not alter politics, but rather created a new form of politics, which enabled a new kind of crime. The