Quotes About Initiative

Entrepreneurship is in my nature.

Have a bias toward action – let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

extraverts (EST) organize the situation itself, including any idle bystanders, and get things rolling

First I had to meet her, and see if she would be game.

When you see something technically sweet you go ahead and do it, and you argue about what to do about it, only after you have achieved success.

Don't wait on perfect conditions for success to happen; just go ahead and do something.

Plan I—Plying the Enemy with Flowers and Gifts—was not working. Plan II—Bringing Aboard the Enemy's Crew— seemed to be failing miserably. It was time to put Plan III—Enticing the Enemy Out of Port—into action.

Keenly attend to team composition and dynamics. • Define, reinforce, and relentlessly protect the team's creative autonomy. • Make it safe to fail and to give feedback. • Celebrate hugely when the group takes initiative.

I've never read anywhere that you have to understand everything before you take a feeble step in the right direction.

All revolutions have been carried through by the spontaneous action of the people; if occasionally governments have responded to the initiative of the people it was only because they were forced or constrained to do so. Almost always they blocked, repressed, struck.

a "grouplet"—a small, self-organized team that has almost no budget and even less authority, but that tries to change something within the company.

The lesson is plain: Speak up. Ask him out. Take that trip. Start that business. Step off the train.

One subtle arena of attack is in the area of pride. Praying people can become prideful about their praying. Non-participants can become prideful in their resistance. The enemy seeks to divide and conquer every initiative of prayer.

For Confucius to take on a student he must sense a similar passion and commitment: "Those not excited I do not instruct; those not eager I do not enlighten. If I raise up one corner and they do not come back with three corners, I do not continue" (7.8). Confucius presumably is drawing on his own experience. Learning, he knows, can be difficult and the path long. Success demands desire and perseverance. It also demands true engagement and intellectual initiative.

If you have a vision, do something with it.

The Nuclear Security Summit was President Obama's initiative born out of his vision to leave behind a safer, more prosperous world for the future generation.

A person who sees a problem is a human being; a person who finds a solution is visionary; and the person who goes out and does something about it is an entrepreneur.

Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality.

Infant (hope)—trust versus mistrust Toddler (will)—autonomy versus shame Preschooler (purpose)—initiative versus guilt School-age child (competence)—industry versus inferiority Adolescent (fidelity)—identity versus role confusion Young adult (love)—intimacy versus isolation Middle-aged adult (care)—generativity versus stagnation

Infant (hope)—trust versus mistrust Toddler (will)—autonomy versus shame Preschooler (purpose)—initiative versus guilt School-age child (competence)—industry versus inferiority Adolescent (fidelity)—identity versus role confusion Young adult (love)—intimacy versus isolation Middle-aged adult (care)—generativity versus stagnation Older adult (wisdom)—integrity versus despair

There's nothing comes without calling in this world, and after you've called you've generally got to go and fetch it yourself.

no one had ever let them think that initiative was acceptable behavior.

Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment.