Chris Gardner Quotes

If I want something, I go for it.

If you want something, you've got to take it.

If you want somethin', go get it. Period.

I'm also pretty resilient and fearless, and when I want something I go for it.

I know what to do to go for it and just take the game in my hands.

Maybe I have to be more aggressive.

The world meets nobody halfway. When you want something, you gotta take it.

One has to take initiative in life to achieve what he or she wants.

If I want something, I go after it.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

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

Once people tell me I can't do stuff, I'm going to go and make it happen.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

You have to make it happen.

Closed mouths don't get fed, and I'm gonna eat every time I get on the court.

Have you watched Animal Planet? The lioness is out there hunting the zebras, the gazelles, all sorts of things, so you need to be the fierce lioness or dragon that you are. Have that inner fire. See what you want, get it, and ask nobody for permission.

If I'm going to do something, I might as well go for it.

I'll just continue to be aggressive. That's my thing.

We need to come out and assert ourselves on both sides of the court.

I don't believe in muckin' about and hiding ambition.

I'm not afraid to step up and take challenges.

No one gets to the top, if they sit on the sidelines, or if they don't believe in themselves.

You can't stand around and wait to be asked to dance.

Go after what you want as if your life depended on it. Because it Does!

Know yourself and go in swinging.