Best Initiative Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 6

“A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that's achieved by, if you like, advertising.”

Ifs Want States Economy Risk Amount Cost Profit Advertising Rely Initiative Entrepreneurial

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Cooperation called fraternity in the classic French formula is as much a part of the democratic ideal as is personal initiative. That cultural conditions were allowed to develop (markedly so in the economic phase) which subordinated cooperativeness to liberty and equality serves to explain the decline in the two latter.”

Two Liberty Economic Conditions Ideals Democratic Classic Latter Formulas Cooperation Decline Initiative Phases Fraternity Liberty And Equality Democratic Ideals

Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939

Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939

“I am all kinds of a democrat, so far as I can discover but the root of the whole business is this, that I believe in the patriotism and energy and initiative of the average man.”

Men Believe Kind I Can Whole Energy I Believe Roots Democrat Average I Believe In All Kinds Initiative Average Man

Book:The papers of Woodrow Wilson

Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson

“Gentlemen, I have spent the night thinking about this Peruvian (peace) initiative and I have to tell you that if it is your decision to accept then you will have to find another Prime Minister.”

Ifs Thinking Night Decision Accepting Ministers Gentleman Prime Initiative Prime Minister Night Thinking Peruvians

Book:As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“Genius is initiative on fire.”

Fire Genius Initiative

Author:Holbrook Jackson

“Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.”

Doe Political Time Politics Leadership Leader Courage Eternity Initiative Be Courageous

Author:Jesse Jackson

“These ballot initiatives remind us that America is the land where people are free to dream whatever they want, so long as that dream doesn't make Midwesterners feel icky!”

People Want Feels Long Dream America Land Initiative Ballots Midwesterners

Author:Lewis Black

“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.”

Ifs Bigs Industry Taxes Deserve California Prize Initiative Tobacco Nobel Nobel Peace Prize

Author:Joe Eszterhas

“I foresee a Liberal vote so massive and the number of Liberal MPs so great that we shall hold the initiative in the new Parliament.”

Numbers Vote Massive Initiative Parliament Mps

Author:David Steel

“So far, the only major accomplishment of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protesters is that they have finally put an end to their previous initiative, Occupy Our Mothers' Basements.”

Ends Mother Streets Wall Majors Accomplishment Initiative Basements Occupy Wall Street

Author:Ann Coulter

“The final and best means of strengthening demand among consumers and business is to reduce the burden on private income and the deterrence to private initiative which are imposed by our present tax system, and this administration pledged itself last summer to an across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes to be enacted and become effective in 1963.”

Mean Lasts Cutting Demand Taxes Summer Finals Bottom Burden Income Administration Consumers Corporate Boards Initiative Income Tax Strengthening Tax System Last Summer Deterrence

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Whatever lessons we take from this dreadful attack (on the World Trade Center and Pentagon), we should never forget that it was, after all, a faith based initiative.”

World Should Forget Lessons Trade Never Forget Initiative Pentagon World Trade World Trade Center Faith Based

Author:Wendy Kaminer

“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.”

Process Infinite Profit Motive Initiative Selection Ingenuity Free Society Housekeeping Profit Motive Good Housekeeping

Author:Winston Churchill

“By declaring yourself a leader, you're taking initiative and moving into a role of influence in a lively and vital network that's changing the world. We're changing the world, first by changing ourselves and then by touching the world as changed beings. We believe the change in us catalyzes change in others. So in changing the world, we're choosing to be the change we wish to see in the world. By taking on this leadership role, you are choosing to be the change too.”

World Firsts Believe Moving Wish Leader Roles Influence Changed Changing The World Touching Initiative Lively Declaring Leadership Roles

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“Voluntary actions by corporations should not go beyond innovative win - win 'no regrets' initiatives. Greenhouse gas control practices that are uneconomic penalize either consumers or stockholders while politicizing the issue of corporate responsibility. Few will be satisfied, and the ineffectual measures will eventually have to be abandoned.”

“Our Animal Sanctuary initiative has many layers. We are aiming to create a place where abandoned and bullied creatures come together with bullied youth. We feel that bullies have leadership abilities, albeit these abilities are totally skewed and misdirected.”

Feels Together Ability Animal Youth Creatures Abandoned Layers Initiative Bully Sanctuary Bullied

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“The sanctuary would be the epicenter for the foundation. We'll have think tanks there. It's going to be a really, really amazing place. As an educational home base, we will also focus on the development of sustainable agriculture initiative. It's a huge project but one I am exceptionally passionate about.”

Thinking Home Would Be Focus Huge Development Projects Foundation Passionate Educational Initiative Agriculture Tanks Sanctuary Really Amazing Amazing Places Home Base Sustainable Agriculture

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“I try to build on our management philosophy. I try to understand what the threats and opportunities are for us. Uh, I try to make sure that we're driving innovation and creative destruction hard enough so we're not blindsided, and that our attitude is to, in starting any initiative, any business, is to focus on how we can create value for others, rather than how we maximize profit, because you can make money focusing on, "How do I maximize profit?"”

Trying Hard Enough Philosophy Values Opportunity Attitude Creative Focus Destruction Innovation Management Threat Starting Profit Driving Making Money Initiative Creative Destruction

Author:Charles Koch

“My father told me "If you choose to let this money destroy your initiative and independence, then it will be a curse to you and my action in giving it to you will have been a mistake. I shall regret very much to have you miss the glorious feeling of accomplishment. Remember that often adversity is a blessing in disguise and is certainly the greatest character builder."”

“To ensure that future generations have the opportunity to make a living from the creation of music, it is critical that we continue to build support behind this important initiative. Thousands of people have already voiced their opinion that it is time to vigorously defend the rights of music creators. Our goal now is to empower thousands more to carry this message forward.”

People Important Opportunity Goal Behinds Opinion Support Rights Generations Creation Messages Creator Critical Empowering Initiative Future Generation

Author:Keri Hilson

“The individual can take initiatives without anybody's permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.”

Thinking Humans Individual Environment Commit Initiative Permission Disregard

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Team Members Initiative

Author:Mike Krzyzewski

“Any man of energy and initiative can get what he wants out of life. But when initiative is crippled by legislation or by a tax system which denies him the right to receive a reasonable share of his earnings, then he will no longer exert himself and the country will be deprived of the energy on which its continued greatness depends.”

Men Want Country Energy Share Greatness Depends Taxes Deny Reasonable Initiative Earning Legislation Deprived Crippled Tax System

Author:Andrew Mellon

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

Belief Leader Efficient Initiative Undertakings

Book:The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams

Source: The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams

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

Right Thing Initiative Doing The Right Thing

Book:The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams

Source: The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams

“What I want to do is to make sure that we fully repeal Obamacare. This will be one of the largest spending initiatives we will ever see in our country. And also, it will take away choice from the American people.”

People Want Country Choices Spending Our Country Initiative Obamacare

Author:Michele Bachmann

“If you are greeted then return the greetings more warmly. If you are favored, then repay the obligation manifold; but he who takes the initiative will always excel in merit.”

Ifs Return Obligation Merit Initiative Greetings Manifold

Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib

“The exploitation agenda advocated by liberals is modeled after the dependency-inducing design of the drug dealer's business model: "We'll supply the first hit for free, and after that, you'll need us forever in order to survive." In order for the liberal scheme to succeed, all attempts at self-empowerment or individual initiative are to be met with fierce resistance and social sanction.”

Source: Bamboozled: How Americans are being Exploited by the Lies of the Liberal Agenda

“Our president's latest energy initiative was to go to Saudi Arabia and beg King Abdullah to give us a little relief on gasoline prices. I guess there was some justice in that. When you, the president, after 9/11, tell the country to go shopping instead of buckling down to break our addiction to oil, it ends with you, the president, shopping the world for discount gasoline.”

World Giving Littles Ends Country Energy President Justice Break Kings Addiction Oil Relief Shopping Initiative Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis Gasoline Discounts Gasoline Prices King Abdullah

Author:Thomas Friedman

“Conservatives came to office to reduce the size of government and enlarge the sphere of free and private initiative. But lately we have increased government in order to stay in office. And, soon, if we don't remember why we were elected we will have lost our office along with our principles, and leave a mountain of debt that our children's grandchildren will suffer from long after we have departed this earth. Because, my friends, hypocrisy is the most obvious of sins, and the people will punish it.”

“Being proactive is more than taking initiative. It is recognizing that we are responsible for our own choices and have the freedom to choose based on principles and values rather than on moods or condition. Proactive people are agents of change and choose not to be victims, to be reactive, or to blame others.”

People Values Choices Principles Conditions Responsible Victim Blame Mood Agents Initiative Recognizing Proactive Freedom To Choose Principles And Values

Book:The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

Source: The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

“Even before President [Barack] Obama announced actions aimed at tightening controls on gun purchases, sales were up, partly in reaction to terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino. Gun dealers say the president's initiatives have spurred sales. At the same time, polling shows more than two thirds of Americans support the president's proposals, including a majority of gun owners.”

“There were initiatives I have remained involved with in the U.S. and in the Middle East, like the Peace Corps, which might be summed up as, "Ask not that the world serve you, but ask what you can do to serve the world."”

World Might Asks Can Do Middle Involved East Middle East Initiative Peace Corps

Author:Queen Noor of Jordan

“I don't think she ever had a single initiative at the United Nations that was not previously [vetted] by the people at the State Department, approved of, and authorized. She did manage to get around the world an awful lot, and find other parts of her vast slum project that needed repair. But I don't think that that was the main point. The main point was that she, after all, connoted Franklin Roosevelt, who by then was long dead, and had a certain prestige and power on that account.”

People Thinking World Long States Certain Nations United Needed Projects Accounts Manage Awful Around The World Department Initiative United Nations Franklin Approved Prestige Slums

Author:William A. Rusher

“I'm not particularly optimistic, but I hope that the lack of alternatives will lead to it. I would like to remind you of the fact that before May 2015 there was no overall European agenda on immigration. Nothing, zero. It wasn't until after yet another tragedy in the Mediterranean that, in response to an Italian initiative, (Europe) began thinking about setting policies for the registration of refugees, their distribution or their deportation.”

Thinking May Facts Policy Europe Tragedy Response Immigration Setting Optimistic Settings Alternatives Agendas Zero Italian Initiative Refugee Distribution Deportation Registration

Author:Paolo Gentiloni

“Lagos was the ultimate dysfunctional city - but actually, in terms of all the initiatives and ingenuity, it mobilised an incredibly beautiful, almost utopian landscape of independence and agency.”

Beautiful Term Cities Ultimate Independence Landscape Agency Initiative Ingenuity Utopian

Author:Rem Koolhaas

“I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years. And I just focused almost exclusively on my initiatives for national crime legislation, foreign policy issues.”

Years States Political Issues Crime Policy Speech Focused Foreign Policy Initiative Legislation Political Speeches

Author:Joe Biden

“What happened to the Soviet Union happened mainly for domestic reasons. It was a failure of the model based on a command economy and dictatorship. The rejection of freedom and democracy, the decisionmaking monopoly of one party, and the monopoly of one ideology all had a chilling effect on the country. That model turned out to be incapable of making structural changes. It did not open up ways for initiative and was overly centralized.”

“I think our initiative with respect to education and economic development can work in Saudi Arabia and it is up to the Saudis to decide how they wish to transform their society in order to make it prepared for the challenges of the 21st century.”

Thinking Order Wish Challenges Economic Century Development Prepared Initiative 21st Century Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis Economic Development

Author:Colin Powell

“There is no suggestion of regime change; quite the contrary, this is an initiative to help people and to help governments who are inclined toward change.”

People Helping Government Contrary Regimes Initiative Suggestions Regime Change

Author:Colin Powell

“There is a distorted perception of what goes on in Brussels. No one reports on the Commission taking a hundred initiatives from its predecessor off the table in order to shift competencies back to member state governments.”

States Government Order Goes On Members Perception Hundred Tables Reports Initiative Predecessors State Government Brussels Competencies

Author:Jean-Claude Juncker

“No single initiative by itself can solve the climate crisis.”

Crisis Climate Solve Initiative

Author:Allen Hershkowitz

“Connect with people, visibly and loudly showcase initiatives that reduce greenhouse gases emissions, nurture youth leaders, or spread the message by raising awareness through campaigns. I am convinced that your contributions will ensure that climate change solutions safely power our - and especially your - future.”

“We didn't hear a word about the Clinton Global Initiative. We didn't hear a word about all the masterful, wonderful things they've done in the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti. Why not? If you're extolling the virtues of the change, "She [Hillary Clinton] makes more change, she's done more change than anybody in my lifetime! I've never met somebody who is better change."”

Ifs Done Virtue Wonderful Mets Lifetime Clinton Why Not Initiative Wonderful Things Earthquakes Haiti Aftermath

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I still don't understand why you don't mention the family charitable foundation, the Clinton Global Initiative. The Clinton Global Initiative is actually like a Morning Call for women all over the world. When the Clinton Global Initiative comes, that's a signal to women all over the world to come to New York.”

World Stills Morning New York Foundation Clinton Initiative Signals Charitable Charitable Foundations

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Political leaders will only undertake bold climate initiatives if they know the American people want it.”

People Ifs Knows Want Political Leader Climate Initiative Political Leaders

Author:Frances Beinecke

“Not so long ago people believed in ideologies, systems, and institutions to save all societies. Today, they have given up such hopes and have returned to relying on the individual, on individual freedom, individual initiative, individual creativity.”

People Long Today Individual Given Creativity Institutions Ideology Initiative Long Ago Given Up Individual Freedom Society Today

Author:Dalai Lama

“If instead policy makers and program managers participate in an interdisciplinary assessment team, make informal visits to local families and have in-depth conversations with local providers and health authorities, the real needs and complex challenges of organizing good reproductive health services become apparent.The first country that implemented this participatory program of assessment, research and policy development was Brazil. I was one of the outsiders who provided support to the initiative.”

“If we succeed in learning more about how to expand program innovations from pilot projects so that they have broader program impact, this should be very relevant for public health initiatives in Michigan and elsewhere in the US.”

Ifs Should Succeed Projects Program Innovation Impact Relevant Pilots Elsewhere Initiative Public Health Michigan Learning More

Author:Ruth Simmons

“My colleagues from the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education are working on participatory public health initiatives in Michigan, and there is much that we can learn from each other. In fact it is essential that we strengthen efforts to learn from each other, and stop considering public health in the third world and in the U.S. as separate intellectual and practical endeavors.”

World Facts Effort Essentials Behavior Intellectual Thirds Practicals Department Endeavor Initiative Considering Colleagues Third World Public Health Michigan Health Education

Author:Ruth Simmons

Initiative Quotes

Related topics

Initiative Quotes