Mark Victor Hansen Quotes

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

Anything I do, I always have a reason for.

Everything that I decide to do means something, otherwise I don't do them.

I don't believe in doing things just to do them.

But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.

The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.

I know what I have to do in order to do good.

The specific course you decide upon is, within certain parameters, less important than the vigor with which you execute it.

Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.

I think it's very important to know what you want to do next versus just leave it up to chance, really position yourself in the right footings to get to where you want to be.

For her, choices were simple; either there was an action she could take to improve the situation, in which case she took it, or there was not, and everything else said on the subject was so much meaningless noise.

When things have a meaning for us, we mean (intend, propose) what we do: when they do not, we act blindly, unconsciously, unintelligently.

You've got to have a vision and an intention and that will guide what you do. I call it devotion. Ask yourself, "Is this not moving me toward where we need to be?" I believe that's helpful because a vision pulls you forward and it keeps you focused. A vision for the day, for the week, for the month and a lifelong vision - whatever works for you. And then you govern your activities and your behaviors accordingly.

Execution gets divided into two key questions: 1) can you figure out what to do and 2) can you get it done.

You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.

Your either in or out. There's no in between.

Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

Prudence supposes the value of the end to be assumed, and refers only to the adaptation of the means. It is the relation of right means for given ends.

Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully. Then act upon it.

The reason people are uncomfortable is because Donald Trump acts. He doesn't talk with a bunch of people about it before, he just acts.

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose

Where magic is concerned, there is always an initial decision, an initial willingness to let it enter your life. If that is not there neither is magic.

If you took our top fifteen decisions out, we'd have a pretty average record. It wasn't hyperactivity, but a hell of a lot of patience. You stuck to your principles and when opportunities came along, you pounced on them with vigor.

The issue of managing through a crisis is you have to be decisive even if you don't have perfect information.

...not deciding to act would be identical with deciding not to act.