Quotes About Initiative

Reading is good, action is better.

audacity of zero

Once the baseline has been established, the startup can work toward the second learning milestone: tuning the engine. Every product development, marketing, or other initiative that a startup undertakes should be targeted at improving one of the drivers of its growth model.

Well, no programmer could direct Karpov's initiative as a whole. The best ones are like idiot savants: they know their stuff backward and forward, but that's all they're good for. They couldn't direct themselves out of a paper bag." She pursed her lips. "So again, I have to ask, who is running the operation now?

idea, he immediately sent a worker to an electrical supply

Every Journey, no matter how far, starts with one step

Employees who consistently behave as though it is your responsibility to "make them successful"; who blame you or others for their lack of success; who don't take the initiative to learn and grow—these employees are not fulfilling a key part of their role. It's easy to get pulled into their worldview; that is, that their role is to be a passive observer of your efforts to "grow" them, and that it's your fault if it doesn't work.

Every journey begins with a single pawstep, and this one is up to us.

This book is dedicated to all the people who get up and do something about it, whatever "it" is and however small the thing it is they do.

the Lord helps those who help themselves

the new president will push for action on many fronts.

at the request of Jean-Claude Trichet, I called a videoconference of the FOMC to discuss renewing

Rule #2: Hit First. Don't take the punch first. Hit first. Hit hard. Hit where it counts. Mike

No one will do it for you.

You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

Success is the child of audacity.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Never confuse Motion with Action.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

God helps them that help themselves.

What we lack in Government is entrepreneurial ability.

Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.

In January 2013, I told the people in the Justice Department after the re-election that I wanted to focus on reforming the federal criminal justice system. I made an announcement in August of that year in San Francisco, when we rolled out the Smart on Crime initiative.

New York and Connecticut belong to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to cut carbon emissions, and New York City has been a leader in energy efficiency.