Quotes About Initiative

The world is run by those who show up not those who wait to be asked.

Where you begin doesn't matter. Your willingness to start is what counts.

I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it

To wish for change will change nothing; To make the decision to take action right now will change everything.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.

Don't waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you.

Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Just get out of the way. Just GO. Forget the corporate rules where you have to sit and meet. Forget that. What's the goal? OK. How you going to get there? Now let's charge! GO!

You must make your own opportunities.

Any action is better than no action at all.

Screw it, just do it!

Business is like a wheel barrow. Nothing happens until you start pushing.

While the worriers are worrying, the planners are planning and the accountants are figuring out why we can't afford it, I'm busy getting started.

Two sure ways to fail- Think and never do or do and never think.

I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.

It's not going to happen if you wait for the boss to tell you to make it happen.

As an entrepreneur, if you're the originator, you need to be faster than ever.

The world only gets better because people risk something to make it better. Thanks Egyptians

Look with favor upon a bold beginning.

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

... too much brooding, not enough doing.

Do It Badly - But at Least Do It!

If it's to be, it's up to me.