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Quotes About Action

If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.
~ Ross Perot
In life and business, there are two cardinal sins. The first is to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not act at all.
~ Carl Icahn
Amateurs look for challenges; professionals look for easy trades. Losers get high from the action; the pros look for the best odds.
~ Alexander Elder
In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.
~ Steve Case
Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.
~ Michael Dell
If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets.
~ Bernard Williams
Business is about to pick up here!
~ Jim Ross
The best decision is the right decision. The next best decision is the wrong decision. The worst decision is no decision.
~ Scott McNealy
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
~ Peter Drucker
My business is to succeed, and I'm good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.
~ William Safire
If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.
~ Stephen Covey
It's always easier to apologize for something you've already done than to get approval for it in advance.
~ Grace Hopper
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
~ Charles de Gaulle
Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
In our business, the windows of opportunity open and close with dazzling rapidity...I constantly have to remind people to seize the moment.
~ Mark McCormack
An entrepreneur isn't someone who owns a business, it's someone who makes things happen.
~ Tim Ferriss
There is time to go long, time to go short and time to go fishing.
~ Jesse Lauriston Livermore
I boldly entered the arena of business and exercised the rights I already possessed.
~ Victoria Woodhull
Nothing is easier than saying words. Nothing is harder than living them day after day.
~ Arthur Gordon Webster
Essentials of how to do a startup do not include writing a business plan
~ Steve Blank
It's when you take that first step opening a business or making an investment that it becomes real.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think.
~ James De La Vega