Quotes About Initiative

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation.

Ownership means once I detect a problem I own it. I am responsible for it.

Never be satisfied with inaction. Question and redefine your purpose to attain progress.

very wary of judging people just on the basis of how smart they sound, and particularly on their ability to find problems or fault with ideas. These are dangerous people. They are smart enough to stop things from happening, but not action oriented enough to find ways of overcoming the problems they have identified.

At Honda, it's sink or swim. They don't teach you step-by-step; they just throw you into the pool and let you figure it out on your own. If you don't know how to swim at first, you need to be aggressive to survive. We are to try out whatever we think is necessary to take ourselves to the next level.

I'm not going to wait for Father to find Olivina. I'm going to do it myself.

Take the first step in the direction toward something that feels right and see where it leads you. And do it NOW. 3.

Design your own job. If you see things in your company that need doing that aren't being done, create a new job for yourself. Come up with an excellent pitch about all the ways this will benefit the company and help them make craploads of money, and name your salary. You never know, stranger things have happened.

Statt Stunden, Tage oder Jahre darauf zu verschwenden, den optimalen nächsten Schritt auszuklügeln, TUN Sie einfach was.

Die meisten Antworten ergeben sich aus Taten, nicht aus Grübeln.

Whatever you do or dream you can do—begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.

If you wait for someone else to make things better, you'll be waiting a very long time

all we need to do is begin. The rest will take care of itself. A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.

I guess there were two types of people in the world, those who sat around a fire, staring into the flames, and those who started the fire. Seth and I started the fire, and then we danced around it.

This was the beginning - and I was ready to be bold".

My inner Boy Scout had to try." If this guy had an inner Boy Scout, I had an inner flamingo.

We can't change things by wishing. Only by doing.

If she liked him so darn much, she should have done something about it. Taken some real action.

Those the brownies will not help, must learn to help themselves

The thing is to take your life in your hands.

Man is being robbed not merely of the products of his labor, but of the power of free initiative, of originality, and the interest in, or desire for, the things he is making

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