Quotes about Initiating Change

You might hear about "taking chances" – the real smartcraft is in "making chances..."

"I must do something" always solves more problems than "Something must be done."

For as long as you wait for them to make the first move, you will continue to be plagued by the hidden resentments you carry inside.

Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.

The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen

Don't follow trends, start trends.

Don't provoke deliberation before you can take action.

Si te remontas veinte o veinticinco años, me habría gustado saber que no había ninguna necesidad de esperar. Fui a la universidad. Fui a la facultad de Derecho. Trabajé en el mundo de la abogacía y de la banca, aunque no durante una cantidad terrible de tiempo. Pero hasta que inicié PayPal no me di cuenta por completo de que no tienes que esperar para emprender algo.

too much brooding, not enough doing.

My entire business model is to go on offense.

If I see an opening, I go for it.

Face the facts: Quite worrying; then do something about it!

Preliminary 3: Deciding to Do It

One must begin in one's own life the private solutions that can only in turn become public solutions.

Starting small can help you overcome dread.

It is difficult to steer a parked car, so get moving.

I know it's important to do more than just complain when there's something you don't like. You need to try to do something about it, or you're nothing but a whiner.

You complain because things don't arrange themselves around you like a bouquet of flowers, without your taking the slightest trouble to do anything. But I have never asked as much: I wanted action. You know, when we played adventurer and adventuress: you were the one who had adventures, I was the one who made them happen.

I need to work outside government, on my own.

Of course, if people do not want to do any work then it is better to start the game from a random position.

People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.

The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

Take action. When you take action, you can create the outcome.

I used to think that to make something happen in a corporation or in the army, you had to be at the higher ranks, to be a general. But you just need to start a movement.