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| 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. (Nolan Bushnell) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Don't wait for your ship to come in; swim out to it. (Unknown) | [▲] | [▼] |
| 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. (William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Anything worth doing is worth doing now! (Ralph Stayer) | [▲] | [▼] |
| If opportunity doesn't knock - build a door. (Milton Berle) | [▲] | [▼] |
| You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there. (Edwin Louis Cole) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Let's make a dent in the universe. (Steve Jobs) | [▲] | [▼] |
| 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. (Lee J. Iacocca) | [▲] | [▼] |
| 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.' That's the appropriate posture for a knowledge executive. (Harland Cleveland) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. (Arnold Toynbee) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed. (Bible) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Nothing happens unless first a dream. (Carl Sandburg) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir people's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that your children and grandchildren are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty. (Daniel H. Burnham) | [▲] | [▼] |
| First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. (Epictetus) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. (Gloria Steinem) | [▲] | [▼] |
| It will not do to leave a live dragon out of your plans if you live near one. (J.R.R.Tolkien) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. (John Lennon) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The best laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft a-gley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy. (Robert Burns) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. (Thomas Alva Edison) | [▲] | [▼] |
| When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it. (W. Clement Stone) | [▲] | [▼] |