Ben Linder Quotes

A lot can be accomplished with current resources if we don't stand around wringing our hands because of lack of funding or complex requirements.

People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it.

If you're not creating, you're waiting.

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.

'Inspiration' is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.

Creativity is every company's first driver. It's where everything starts, where energy and forward motion originate. Without that first charge of creativity, nothing else can take place.

Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.

I want to be creative, to get on the ball, to play.

You can have the best intentions in the world but if you do nothing, you are nothing.

If you have an idea, immediately move on it. To start that fire and get it burning immediately...it's everything.

Simply by making the effort to start something, you will be miles ahead of almost everyone else.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!

Produce, produce! Were it but the pitifulest, infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name. 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee? Out with it then! Up, up! Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy whole might.

Be a doer, not a stewer.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

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?

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

If you have a vision, do something with it.

Delay is the enemy of progress.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.