Quotes About Initiative

Nobody can dare me to do anything that I don't come up with on my own.

I decided we should book ourselves, so I started booking the band.

Attacking is better than defending.

I want to start with small but definitive change; the big picture is too abstract.

We have the opportunity to change Denmark - that opportunity must be seized.

I come from Des Moines. Someone had to.

It is true not all has been accomplished that the earnest advocates would desire, but a start has been made.

I was always determined to earn my own cash, even when I was at school and growing up at home.

To me, every decision needn't be a 'big-bang' reform but a signal of proactive decision-making and removal of red tape and bureaucracy.

Any initiative involving the green beret - as opposed to special forces - to expand and train a national Libyan military capacity has value, but not in Tripoli, where U.K. forces will be targets and look like an invading force.

I worked hard at whatever task I was given and embraced leadership opportunities, whether as a crossing guard, an altar boy, or a general.

Americans are our greatest national resource and we need to invest in them through infrastructure, education, and a competitive tax system that rewards initiative and innovation while punishing irresponsible and destructive behavior.

Our high school didn't have a crew team - we started the crew team.

You want to get your teammates involved. You want to make the right play. But sometimes you have to be the guy to make the play.

They talk. You act.

Don't Just Talk About What You can Do; Make It Happen!

Manion's people did what conservatives always did when the going got tough: they started a new group. "For America

Don't think. Just do it.

Competitive advantage, he reasoned, could best be thought of in waves, with the job of the strategist being to seize strategic initiative by launching ever-new

One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Todos los esfuerzos--que no son pocos--hechos por el gobierno, en materia educativa, se diluyen en el mar de porquería de los medios de comunicación monopolizados por la iniciativa privada.

Don't spend a week prepping for meetings; spend an hour and then go talk to people. Anything more is stalling. Don't spend months doing full-time customer conversations before beginning to move on a product. Spend a week, maybe two. Get your bearings and then give them something to commit to.

Say and do something positive that will help the situation it doesn't take any brains to complain.

Hoping and Wishing are excuses for not Doing.