Initiative Quotes - Page 3

What is initiative? I'll tell you: It is doing the right thing without being told.

Encourage members of your team to take the initiative and act on their own.

To act, in its most general sense, means to take an initiative, to begin... to set something into motion.

It is natural for me to ignore autograph seekers, but God wants me to share my testimony card with them and be loving. That power and initiative comes from him.

Personal initiative, competitive selection, the profit motive, corrected by failure and the infinite process of good housekeeping and the personal ingenuity-here constitute the life of a free society.

When you are leading, you have to take initiative.

Any state with an initiative process is on our radar.

Initiative is at the heart of manhood

The 9/11 terrorist attack was a faith-based initiative.

And the God who hears is also the one who speaks. He has spoken and is still speaking. Humanity remains his project, not its own, and his initiatives are always at work among us.

For change to happen in any community, the initiative must come from the individual.

The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.

What the carburetor, sparkplug and self-starter are to an automobile, initiative, private enterprise and executive ability are to industry as a whole, including the wage earner, wage payer, wage spender and wage saver, i.e., the investor. If the sparkplug and self-starter get out of commission, the car will come to a standstill.

I've never launched any initiative or campaign that people thought was a slam dunk.

Initiating is really and truly difficult, and that's what leaders do. They see something others are ignoring and they jump on it.

Initiative is the privilege of picking yourself.

Do you know they've already seen a drop of 37% in donations [for Clinton Global Initiative]? Now, if it's a charity, why a 37% drop? There's a 37% drop because the donors figured out the Clintons can't do anything for 'em anymore. That's not pretty.

There are ways for what has been going on at that foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative, there are ways that that can be exposed and embarrass and humiliate and all that.

Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.

[The Clinton health care initiative is] washed-over old-time bureaucratic liberalism, or centralized bureaucratic socialism.

No one could become an efficient leader or take the initiative in any great undertaking without belief in himself.

It is rather unusual for Italy to be at the forefront of pro-market initiatives.

The people that work with you should generally come up with their own initiatives.

Force yourself to simplify every initiative, every product, every marketing, everything you do.

A society which is mobile, which is full of channels for the distribution of a change occurring anywhere, must see to it that its members are educated to personal initiative and adaptability.