Oswald Mosley Quotes

Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent.

In exceptional boardrooms, the intellectual rigor generated by a challenging question is both an accepted norm and a precursor to reaching informed decisions. This is the crucial edge that sets apart boards that lead from boards that follow.

The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.

Don't be the ammunition wagon, be the rifle... knowledge exists primarily for use.

The rule for effective governance is simple. It is one Ronald Reagan knew by heart. And one that he successfully employed with Social Security and the Cold War. When there is a problem, you fix it. That is the job you have been sent to do and you cannot wait for someone else to do it for you.

The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?

Action is typical of the American style, thought and planning are not; it is considered heresy to state that some problems are not immediately or easily solvable.

There is a time for weighing evidence and a time for acting. And if there's one thing I've learned throughout my work in finance, government, and conservation, it is to act before problems become too big to manage.

People can expect that from me as premier: If there's something to be done, something to be fixed, it'll happen.

Meeting the challenges of the future requires a state that can think and act strategically.

A good decision executed quickly is better than a great one never executed.

It is true that one has to think first and then to act - but it's also true that if one has no possibility of acting, one's thinking kind of becomes empty and stupid.

You only stay in front by coming up with ideas your new competitors haven't thought of yet.

Never leave the site of a strong idea without doing something to execute around it.

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.

Ideas are just a multiplier of execution.

We do not need ACTS but Action.

Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.

A brilliant idea without action is like Mark McGwire playing baseball without a bat.

I don't practice anything. I spend time looking over ideas and then just get out and do it.

Here lay the political genius of Franklin Roosevelt: that in his own time he knew what were the questions that had to be answered, even though he himself did not always find the full answer.

I know what I want to do and it makes sense to get going.

A war not only arises, but derives its nature , from the political ideas, the moral sentiments, and the international relations obtaining at the moment when it breaks out. This amounts to saying:;: try and know why and with the help of what you are going to act; then you will find out how to act.

Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.

Ideas are useless unless used. The proof of their value is in their implementation. Until then, they are in limbo.