Quotes About Proactivity

Leaders have to be intensely aware and be bold and flexible enough to adjust course ahead of impending changes.

I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.

If you make the opportunity. you'll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.

You see," Pindar continued, "the majority of people operate with a mindset that says to the fireplace, 'First give me some heat, then I'll throw on some logs.' Or that says to the bank, 'Give me interest on my money, then I'll make a deposit.' And of course, it just doesn't work that way.

A leader is paid to do three things: Get the job done and get it done well. Plan ahead—be proactive, not reactive. Exercise good, sound judgment in doing all of the above.

The best leaders in any enterprise see problems coming and stack the deck to prevent negative "what ifs" from happening. They also have contingency plans to take advantage of positive openings which occur in fleeting windows of time.

When you have a plan put it into action instantly. Don't let it lie around and get stale and have other people start thinking about it themselves.

In our studies of managers, we have found that the difference between those who take the initiative and those who do not becomes particularly evident during phases of major change, when managerial work becomes relatively chaotic and unstructured.

In my roles as Deputy State Treasurer and Special Assistant Attorney General, I strove to make government more responsive, transparent, efficient, and proactive.

It is better to live ready than to get ready!

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

There are three kinds of people," he wrote later, "those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.

Don't wait for the opportunity, create it.

If you really want something in this world,' said Olga simply, 'you'll never get it by sitting down and waiting. But if you go out and do things there's no knowing where you'll end up.

The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing.

the difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next.

I believe it's true that the difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next.

You cannot wait for the smoke to clear: once you can see things clearly it is already too late. You can't outrun an epidemic: by the time you start to run it is already upon you. Identify what is important and drop everything that is not.

I really want to move away from the old model in which you have to rely on people giving $10 after a humanitarian crisis to a newer model where people give money but also their time and their skills, whatever they have, to the causes that are personally meaningful to them well before the crisis moment presents itself.

A private wealth-management firm always invited the wife of one of the company's executives to events. Everyone knew that she would be the first to say hello, to offer a hand, or to help someone find a seat. She always acted as if she were greeting people in her own home, said the event manager. She was better than most of our salespeople. Be first. Take the initiative. People appreciate it when you make the effort.

A man whose wisdom is true does not sit in waiting for the world to come at him piece by piece for proving its existence!

Un hombre que posee sabiduría no se sienta a esperar que el mundo aparezca ante él pedazo a pedazo para probar su existencia! Binabik

Don't hope. Hope is for people who aren't prepared.

Don't hope. Hope is for people who aren't prepared.