Quotes About Initiative

Fear is a cold bastard. The only way to overcome it is to act—to take the first step and just move forward.

When her body first hit the net, all I registered was a gray blur. I pulled her across it and her hand was small, but warm, and then she stood before me, short and thin and plain and in all ways unremarkable- except that she had jumped first. The stiff had jumped first. Even I didn't jump first. Her eyes were so stern, so insistent. Beautiful.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

Don't let not knowing what to do prevent you from doing anything at all

If there is no case to take care of, then you will take care to create a case to take care of. Otherwise your system becomes useless.

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something.

The best way to boycott is to build your own

The best way to get past doubt and inexperience is simply action.

The best way to do it, is to do it!

The best way to get a project done faster is to start sooner

One of the best aspects of health care reform is it starts to emphasize prevention.

Go head Taggert. Take your best shot.

Yes, it seems that as the President (George W. Bush) comes to the end of his two terms, he's finally realized the best way to get things done for you, is for you to do it.

I find the best things are done for yourself or start as a small project and become a big thing.

Great companies are built by people who never stop thinking about ways to improve the business.

We have a strategic plan. It's called 'doing things'.

Strong leaders understand that action cures indecision

If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.

If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.

I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings.

An entrepreneur isn't someone who owns a business, it's someone who makes things happen.

The challenge with being an initiator of projects is that you are never, ever done.

It's when you take that first step opening a business or making an investment that it becomes real.

For me, it's always been the initial business - just getting a word down, any words down, on a blank piece of paper. Once I've done that, I'm away. Beginning is one half of the deed.