Quotes About Initiative

If you want to become invaluable in a workplace—in any community—just do the useful things no one else is doing. Arrive earlier and leave later than your compatriots (but do not deny yourself your life).1 Organize what you can see is dangerously disorganized. Work, when you are working, instead of looking like you are working.

A responsible person decides to make a problem his or her problem, and then works diligently—even ambitiously—for its solution,

La falta de personalidad hace, a éstos, incapaces de iniciativa y de resistencia.

The example could encourage others who only fear to start.

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

Anarchists present a new method; the free initiative of all and free agreement; then, after the revolutionary abolition of private property, every one will have equal power to dispose of social wealth.

There is no proof of creativity without action.

If your boss steps into your office and says, "We have a little problem and we want you to head up a team to solve it," then the lesson for you is a bit more complicated. Don't blithely accept the assignment and say, "Sure, boss." If you do, you could be setting yourself up for a fall.

Never relinquish the initiative.

I always say to the players, 'You can either create or wait.' If you're waiting, you're relying on someone else, as simple as that. But if you create it, you've got to do it.

You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself.

I think it's really important as we position Hawaii as the policy leader in renewable energy.

And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.

I have certainly been very front footed about increasing our gender representation at Westpac.

Women have initiated the change all by themselves. The credit goes to them. Men have had no role to play in the rise in women's representation on a film set.

To me, entrepreneurship means something different. I think of it as identifying and valuing opportunity.

Any opportunity I get, I want to make the most of it, and I'm not afraid to look like an idiot.

The idle always have a mind to do something.

I believe that one should always be contributing towards life and never stay idle.

I was never a sit-in-the-audience-type person. Even as a little kid, when I saw a band performing at a restaurant, I would ask them if I could sing a song.

I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.

We encourage employees to ship new features on day one, which immediately encourages them to come up with something creative and different.

I'm impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen.

As governor, I learned the importance of having an agenda.