Quotes About Proactivity

Three rules of thumb to remember....."Get Up, Get Out and Go Get it Done.

Men and women who possesses drive record more increase than those who are passive

I try to be very aware of opportunities as they arise. But I don't sit around staring at my navel and thinking about my brand development.

We need to make sure we are constantly staying ahead, thinking about what is coming.

I've always been really good at staying busy. Even while I'm working, I'm looking at what the next thing is.

I always wanted to just stay 10 steps ahead of everybody. It's just been like that my whole life.

I think you have to see two steps ahead of things. That's just the way I roll.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

As the early 20th century writer Orison Swett Marden once said, "Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.

Weak men wait for opportunities, strong men make them.

If there's a problem, you fix it. You don't set up fences around it and make rules about how it should be fixed. You fix it.

Es mejor encender una vela que maldecir la oscuridad.

Better light a candle than curse the darkness.

I want to just DO SOMETHING instead of ask someone else to start a process to investigate the possibility of someday possibly maybe doing something.

The point is just that people usually only figure out that things are turning bad when they turn bad for them, and by then it's too late. The time to act is when you still have privilege and power, not when you've had it stripped from you.

You sit around feelin' sorry for yourself and you're dead. Sittin' on your ass can get to be a disease worse than what you got.

If something isn't right, you can't just ignore it and say you'll fix it later," he said. "That's what other companies do.

If you got the chance, you acted. If you sat back and waited and hoped that something good would come along and save you, or fix what you were too frightened or weak or stupid to fix for yourself, you could wait a lifetime and still be trapped.

"I must do something" always solves more problems than "Something must be done."

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

Don't just stand there; make something happen.

For the first time it was up to me to do some real hunting instead of waiting and reacting to what other people chose to do.

The best way to predict the future is to create it. You do that by study.

I'm so tired of asking Andrew to do things around the house. No one has to ask me. You know why? Because I just get on with it.