Margrethe Vestager Quotes

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

I'm the type of person that doesn't like to wait for people to do things for me, and I never want to feel stuck. Why sit around and be like, 'I wish my label would book me some studio time,' if I can just buy my own studio equipment and figure out how to run Pro Tools and record it myself?

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

Don't just analyze a problem - solve it.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

Every person who ever had a plan to do anything, and went and did it, or who laid his plan before others, and won their co-operation to do it with him, without going to external authorities to please do the thing for them, was a direct actionist.

If you really want something, you've gotta just do it and not wait for other people to hand it to you.

It's up to me to use my brain, be clever, find the pockets of space, and get on the ball.

Rather than complain about a thing you cannot change, I try to find a solution to help the performance in the best way.

In idle wishes, fools supinely stay. Be there a will and wisdom finds a way.

You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles. Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide.

I show up ready to play, so I normally try and fit the situation.

Raising myself and caring for my brothers and sisters allowed me the benefit of a lot of information that I wouldn't have otherwise gotten. I had to be frugal, thoughtful, resourceful. I didn't have anyone to tell me, 'You can't.'

Sometimes technique works better than a whole lot of other things.

Kids raised to be pampered and spoiled don't really end up being good leaders. Leaders need to be independent minded and confident.

If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.

If the national government doesn't fix your problem, you've got a problem. You've got to fix it yourself. That's just part of the American way.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

I do less waiting by the phone than anyone I know in the business. I don't wait for a job. I just go on to my own work.

Because if you're prepared and you know what it takes, it's not a risk. You just have to figure out how to get there. There is always a way to get there.

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

I was just taught very early that if I didn't solve problems, I was headed for a very dark path. Problems were everywhere. Now, even if there are no problems, I look for problems. I'm like, 'You know what? I don't like the way this spoon works. I want to design a new spoon.'

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.