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Action may not always bring
happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
~
Benjamin Disraeli
You’ve got to start with your gut, with something you are really
passionate
about, for a good reason. You won’t get there by sitting in a closet and thinking, ‘Boy I know the world must want this.’
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~
Charles Schwab
Serious People Actually DO Something; Non-Serious People Talk About Doing Something or Plan to do Something One Day.
~ Stuart Goldsmith
I can give you a six-word formula for
success: "Think things through – then follow through.
~ Edward Rickenbacker
Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that.
~ Lewis Carroll
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
~ from Warfighting, the United States Marine Corps
The world has a way of undermining complex plans. This is particularly true in fast moving environments. A fast moving environment can evolve more quickly than a complex plan can be adapted to it. By the time you have adapted, the target has changed.
~ General Carl Von Clausewitz
On s'engage et puis on voit!
("One jumps into the fray, then figures out what to do next.")
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Thus, though I have heard of successful military operations that were clumsy but swift, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.
~
Sun Tzu, "The Art of War"
The essential factor of military success is speed, that is taking advantage of others' unpreparedness or lack of foresight, their failure to catch up, going by routes they do not expect, attacking where they are not on guard. This you cannot accomplish with hesitation.
~ Sun Tzu, "The Art of War" |
