Quotes About Action

The ultimate freedom lies in not having to explain why you did something.

I know very few people who, when they say they want to do something, end up doing it.

Selfish courage is not courage. A foolish gambler is not committing an act of courage, especially if he is risking other people's funds or has a family to feed.*4

We" are the empirical decision makers who hold that uncertainty is our discipline, and that understanding how to act under conditions of incomplete information is the highest and most urgent human pursuit.

You may not know in your mind where you are going, but you know it by doing.

The doer wins by doing, not convincing.

provided one is acting for the benefit of the collective.

Much progress comes from the young because of their relative freedom from the system and courage to take action that older people lose as they become trapped in life.

the talker versus the doer.

will side in favor of Rav Safra's action in the debate.

The ancients knew very well that the only way to understand events was to cause them.

One needs to go out and buy a lottery ticket in order to win. Does it mean that the work involved in the trip to the store caused the winning?

Entrepreneurs are selected to be just doers, not thinkers, and doers do, they don't talk, and it would be unfair, wrong, and downright insulting to measure them in the talk department.

they think in terms of actions, never interactions.

should avoid engaging in an action with a big downside if one has no idea of the outcomes.

As the great game theorist Ariel Rubinstein holds: do your theories or mathematical representations, don't tell people in the real world how to apply them. Let those with skin in the game select what they need.

You always control what you do; so make this your end.

Another case where economists may inspire us but should never tell us what to do

Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties.

judged by their actions, not by the results. No matter how sophisticated our choices, how good we are at dominating the odds, randomness will have the last word.

All you have to do is mitigate the consequences.

Those who talk should do and only those who do should talk

The need to focus on the payoff from your actions instead of studying the structure of the world (or understanding the "True" and the "False") has been largely missed in intellectual history.

but I know of nobody who is atheist in both actions and words