Quotes About Initiative

What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse, it may work and it may not, but I'm going to go for it. Ultimately I probably prefer to be respected for that than whether it works out or not, either winning or losing.

It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well as do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.

It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.

By contrast, if they are engaging with your emails and acting on them, then when you ask them to take a bigger action they're much more ready to take that step because they've already taken smaller steps and they've had good results from taking those smaller steps.

When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.

You just can't let life happen to you, you have to make life happen.

Leaders with it do more than just think of new ideas; they actually do the new ideas.

Even a mistake is better than nothing.

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.

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place." —Nora Roberts

Looking at the poster, I thought, Maybe we can't solve every big problem, but we can try to solve the ones we can.

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.

Never make the first move." - Loor (The Rivers of Zadaa)

It is a fantastic initiative by the ministry to develop Aakash Tablet, a mobile device that can be utilised by students anywhere. It was successfully tried out. The second and third versions have come out and the fourth version is on the anvil.

When Google reached out to me in 2011, they wanted me to build out their female lifestyle vertical. When they were starting with that initiative, they were giving each production house a million dollars to produce content.

The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.

Improving veterans' employment is an all-hands-on-deck enterprise. We work with the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, with private sector partners and others.

I can't stand just sitting here not doing anything. You can't solve a problem by remote control.

If you wait until you can foresee everything, you'll never launch.

The most important endeavors require a risk.

Calling for change and being part of making change are two very different things. Stop calling for change and be a part of making the change you want to see.

It might not be much. OK, it wasn't much. But it was a start.

Don't ever wait around for your life. Go get what you want. Because believe me, no one's going to give it to you.

You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.