Fred Wilson Quotes

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

The future requires action and not mere conversation.

Many people have the right aim in life, they just never get around to pulling the trigger. The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps -- we must step up the stairs.

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

Run to meet the future or it's going to run you down.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs.

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

Change doesn't happen with people sitting on their behinds, getting lazy.

A little less conversation, a little more ACTION.

I'm young. You can't just sit there and be satisfied.

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

The world's not going to wait for you. If you have an idea, put some effort behind it and get it out there.

The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move.

Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it.

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

Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

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.

A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.