Ludwig von Mises Quotes

All action is an attempt to exchange a less satisfactory state of affairs for a more satisfactory one.

If there's anything you're not happy about-in your relationships, in your health, in your career-make a decision right now about how you're going to change it immediately.

You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place.

The point of the essay is to change things.

We have to change.

The hard part is choosing to change what needs changing.

Sometimes there are changes that need to be made.

With time, everything changes, and there is nothing wrong in that.

The world is changing, but it is not changing on its own.

If you're not happy with something, take positive steps.

If you change nothing, nothing will change.

Change won't happen overnight.

The manager, in today's world, doesn't get paid to be a steward of resources, a favored term not so many years ago. He or she gets paid for one and only one thing: to make things better (incrementally and dramatically), to change things, to act - today.

There's a little perspiration involved in bringing about change too.

We make the future better than the past. We don't hide from history. We make history.

He had moved from thought to words, and now from words to actions.

We know what needs to be done - all that is missing is the will to do it.

Only a crisis—actual or perceived—produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.

Take the best action toward your most important goal right now.

It is not the nature of man, as I see it, ever to be quite satisfied with what he has in life.... Contentment tends to breed laxity, but a healthy discontent keeps us alert to the changing needs of our time.

Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.

You can change things, you can make things better.

Action is the 'bridge' between the inner world and the outer world.

To wish for change will change nothing; To make the decision to take action right now will change everything.

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.