John P. Kotter Quotes

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Don't be fool's, don't be complacent, and stop being apathetic.

I just always wanted to stay busy.

For me, always being ready and knowing that when I have my opportunity, I have to go out there and do my best. My whole career has been like that. I try to do my best in putting my focus in what I can control.

What I always keep in mind is that we'll take action on things that need to be done, promptly and without hesitation.

Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

My agent once said, 'You're not very driven.' And it's true. I'm not the type to ring up and go, 'Get me this part!'

If you sit and feel sorry for yourself, you're wasting your time. You should be in acting class, instead of feeling sorry for yourself. You should be working.

I show up ready to play, so I normally try and fit the situation.

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

This is the question I want everyone to ask yourself every single day when you come up with something you feel that needs to be done: if not now, then when? And if not me, then who?

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

If I want something, I go after it.

If you have a vision and you are trying to accomplish something, you have to be competitive, or things are going to slip by you.

When you stop being nervous is when you should retire. I'm always a little nervous for anything I do because when complacency sets in, that's when I feel it's time to move on to something else.

I'm not a guy that sits around and does nothing.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

I have too much drive and determination to let anything falter me. Because I know that life's short and there's so much that I wanna do, and I can't do anything that might hold me back or get stuck in.

If there's something I want, I go for it. I just think about how I'm going to go for it.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

I've always been very self-motivated.

Will it, and set to work briskly.