Quotes About Action

Practitioners don't write; they do. Birds fly and those who lecture them are the ones who write their story. So it is easy to see that history is truly written by losers with time on their hands and a protected academic position

I've looked in history for heroes who became heroes for what they did not do, but it is hard to observe nonaction; I could not easily find any.

A squeeze occurs when people have no choice but to do something, and do it right away, regardless of the costs.

The only condition for such brand of more sophisticated rationalism: to believe and act as if one does not have the full story—to be sophisticated you need to accept that you are not so.

Don't tell me what you "think," just tell me what's in your portfolio.

Forecasting (in words) bears no relation to speculation (in deeds).

always do more than you talk. And precede talk with action.

el mayor y más acuciante objetivo humano es comprender cómo actuar en condiciones de información incompleta.

The strength of a creed did not rest on "evidence" of the powers of its gods, but evidence of the skin in the game on the part of its worshippers.

Entrepreneurs are selected to be just doers, not thinkers, and doers do, they don't talk.

people's understanding of probability does not translate into their behavior).

most successes are caused by very few "windows of opportunity," failing to grab one can be deadly for one's career.

La maldición de la modernidad es que cada vez estamos más colonizados por una clase de personas cuya capacidad para explicar las cosas supera a su capacidad de comprensión. O cuya capacidad explicativa supera a sus acciones.

Never have people who talk and don't do been more visible, and played a larger role, than in modern times.

Never have people who talk and don't do been more visible, and played a larger role, than in modern times. This is the product of modernism and division of tasks.

Just as those who live by the sword die by the sword, those who earn their living taking risks will lose their livelihood taking risks.

Judging people by their beliefs is not scientific. There is no such thing as the "rationality" of a belief, there is rationality of action. The rationality of an action can be judged only in terms of evolutionary considerations.

There is a difference between beliefs that are decorative and different sorts of beliefs, those that map to action.

just to show that you can walk the walk.

It's much easier to sell "Look what I did for you" than "Look what I avoided for you.

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.

humans may have an instinct to procrastinate only when no life is in danger.

those who don't take risks should never be involved in making decisions.

as to what to do in the event of losses.