"Always demand a deadline. A deadline weeds out the extraneous and the ordinary. It prevents you from trying to make it perfect, so you have to make it different. Different is better."
"Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided."
"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done."
"The greatest teacher is called 'doing'."
"An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox."
"If you don't make dust, you eat dust."
"Things may come to those who wait, but only things left by those who hustle."
"What we think or what we know or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence, The only consequence is what we do."
"Doing nothing gets you nothing."
"Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow."
"Many backward steps are made by standing still."
"Their comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear."
"Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone."
"You create opportunities by performing, not complaining."
"If there is a trait which does characterize leaders it is opportunism. Successful people are very often those who steadfastly refuse to be daunted by disadvantage and have the ability to turn disadvantage to good effect. They are people who seize opportunity and take risks. Leadership then seems to be a matter of personality and character."
"What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting."
"The dream is free, the hustle is sold separately!"
"Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now."
"You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there."
"Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory."
"One today is worth two tomorrows."
"Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it."
"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world."
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
"Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs."
"Do what today others won't, so tomorrow, you can do what others can't."
"An idea is worthless unless you use it."
"Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference."
"No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye."
"The secret to getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one."
"Anything worth doing is worth doing now!"
"You have to recognize that every 'out front' maneuver you make is going to be lonely, but if you feel entirely comfortable, then you're not far enough ahead to do any good. That warm sense of everything going well is usually the body temperature at the center of the herd."
"The test of a man isn’t what you think he’ll do. It’s what he actually does."
"There is only one time that is important – NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time we have any power over."
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
"Even if you're on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there."
"A good plan implemented today is better than a perfect plan implemented tomorrow."
"I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action."
"You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water."
"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to meet it."
"If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act."
"Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice. For them, the new information environment—undermining old means of control, opening up old closets of secrecy, reducing the relevance of ownership, early arrival, and location—should seem less a litany of problems than an agenda for action. Reaching for a way to describe the entrepreneurial energy of his fabled editor Harold Ross, James Thurber said 'He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.' Tha"
"If you can't feed 1,000 people, then feed one."
"Let's make a dent in the universe."
"The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do."
"I would rather regret the things I have done than the things I have not."
"If opportunity doesn't knock – build a door."
"Luck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it. You went where something might be found and you found something, simple as that."
"A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you breathe."
"Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time."
"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit."
"Most people spend more time planning their grocery shopping than designing their future. The basic difference between people who live their dreams and those who only dream about how they would live, are the accuracy of their plans, their ability to generate new ideas, and their ability to take action."
"Deal with the difficult while it is yet easy; Deal with the great while it is yet small."
"Success comes to the person who does today what you were thinking about doing tomorrow."
"There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures."
"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."
"Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value."
"The right man is the one who seizes the moment."
"Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome. You must be willing to fire."
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process, is its own reward."
"Opportunity does not knock. You have to find it."
"Do not lie in a ditch, and say God help me; use the lawful tools He hath lent thee."
"Take stands, take risks, take responsibility."