Quotes About Initiative

Don't Be Afraid to Ask for What You Want. "I'd really like a part in the school play. " Forget about working so hard and doing such a good job that people come to you with opportunities. In the real world, people get very little that they don't ask for.

If I'd learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them. Don't talk about going to Borneo. Book a ticket, get a visa, pack a bag, and it just happens.

If I'd learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them. DOn't talk about going to Borneo. Book a ticket, get a vida, pack a bag, and it just happens.

Uma tentativa infeliz vale mais do que a ausência de tentaiva

The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different.

We've really got to stop looking to Washington to fix our problems. It obviously doesn't have the ability to do that. People who are successful are not successful because of the president.

Enterprise Washington is economic development in areas of high unemployment around the state of Washington.

If Mr. Obama wants to get things done, he must recognize that in Washington only the president has the power to make the first big move.

Shame on me if I don't try to do more with what I have. It would be... a terrible thing to waste this opportunity to try to make a difference.

I believe that most people would like to cooperate in reducing waste, but to encourage them, the national policy should be clear, well advertised, and consistent. Even within Greater London, there is a huge discrepancy between council policies. I believe a national waste management initiative should be designed and implemented by government.

I cannot have a concept of football where everything is based on the opposition. We have to dictate the game, we have to be the ones taking the initiative, and we have to entertain the people coming to watch us.

Everybody at the company has the freedom - and really, the expectation - to critically look at how it can be better and then invent ways to make it better.

A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.

Planning is extremely important, but at some point you have to go out and do it.

A CEO of a multinational global company can't say what to do; you've got to plant the flag.

Under the guidance of the former President of India, APJ Abdul Kalam, I have been doing this green initiative. My aim is to plant 1 crore sapling in Tamil Nadu.

I got busy with planting saplings after I started the Green Globe initiative.

Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.

Everyone loves to complain that there are no real bands on MTV, yet no one wants to step up to the plate and try to change that.

Creating a global platform for collaboration in education research and innovation has been the PISA initiative's aspiration from its conception in the late 1990s.

If my brother and I wanted money in our pockets, we had to get jobs - my first was at 15, at Burger King. We had to come up with ways to create an income.

It's up to me to use my brain, be clever, find the pockets of space, and get on the ball.

On climate change, Britain is leading in Europe.