Initiative Quotes - Page 4

If they gave a Nobel Peace Prize for work against big tobacco, not just in the industry, but also with the California tax initiative, he really deserves one.

If you can defend, counter-attack and take the initiative then you become a more dangerous player.

A hero is someone who, for the general good, takes the initiative to solve an ambiguous problem.

When a change initiative is focused on changing a company's culture directly, it can take five to ten years to accomplish its objective. Company cultures don't change easily. My friend Peter Drucker used to argue that company cultures don't change at all.

A man descending is propelled by inertia; the only initiative left him is whether or not he decides to enjoy the passing scene.

Positive response from some of our exporters and holders of free funds in response to some of the turnaround initiatives ... in particular the favourable exchange rate policies.

Beaurocracy destroys initiative.

This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins.

Most nanny-state initiatives begin on a local level.

OneBeat is one of the greatest initiatives in advancing the meeting of cultures worldwide.

Chess truly uncovers whether or not someone has imagination and takes initiative.

In moments of crisis, the initiative passes to those who are best prepared.

It was very much an Australian/New Zealand initiative to have a nuclear free South Pacific. And the Americans were very apprehensive about this. So, I explained to them that, as far as I was concerned, this didn't involve any diminution in our commitment to the ANZUS relationship. But David Lange took it further and he barred visits of US nuclear warships to New Zealand.

We got a malaria initiative, really a phenomenal time, even though in the early stages there was some uncertainty. Then of course [Barack] Obama, although he had budget constraints, he believed in these things; a lot of new initiatives, including in agriculture.

In our complex world, there cannot be fruitful initiative without government, but unfortunately there can be government without initiative.

Without a Palestinian partner, Israel needs to take the initiative itself.

No single initiative by itself can solve the climate crisis.