Quotes About Action

For me, it's always been the initial business - just getting a word down, any words down, on a blank piece of paper. Once I've done that, I'm away. Beginning is one half of the deed.

Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all

Every adviser told me to study the company, learn the business for the first 90 days and don't make any decisions. I couldn't resist seeing broken things and immediately taking action.

Procrastination is one of the most expensive invisible costs in business today.

In a startup, absolutely nothing happens unless you make it happen.

You need more than an idea to run a business

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

Every decision you make is a mistake.

Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.

I have always believed you cannot run a successful enterprise from behind a desk.

Despatch is the soul of business.

Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down.

Whatever policy we adopt, there must be an energetic prosecution of it. For this purpose it must be somebody's business to pursue and direct it incessantly.

I didn't go into this business to do action because I'm a classically trained actor. But I'm good at kicking and punching.

Business is what concerns us. If you care about something enough to do something about it, you're in business

Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.

All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]

Blessed are those who know what on earth they are here on earth to do and set themselves about the business of doing it.

Don't take forever to make a decision, but don't make it too fast.

You can't do business sitting on your ... armchair!

Companies do not do new things because they understand it but because they feel it.

If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it.

The function and responsibility of the President is to set before the American people the unfinished business, the things we must do if we are going to succeed as a nation.

He was not going to be dragged into other people´s business. He was going to plunge in headfirst.