Victor Hugo Quotes

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.

Encourage members of your team to take the initiative and act on their own.

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.

Is it important to have a crew behind me? No, it's important to have me behind them. That's how I look at it. You can't just roll with a situation like you're depending on somebody to help you. You're supposed to help the situation, whatever the situation is that you're in.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

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.

When you see something that needs to be done, you do it.

But I mean, I'm a confident kid. I want to be a kid that kind of drives the bus, doesn't just be a passenger.

The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start. The fellow who sits still and does just what he is told will never be told to do big things.

Don't wait for mentors to seek you out. Don't ever wait for your phone calls to be returned, your letters to be answered, your faxes to be responded to. Keep going out and asking question.

Anyone who waits for someone else to make a change automatically becomes the follower.

You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

Some people only ask others to do something. I believe that, why should I wait for someone else? Why don't I take a step and move forward.

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

I think, since I was a kid, I had that independence of being driven and being motivated in whatever I did, whether school work or a sport or even a hobby.

I want people to see that you don't need to rely on other people to make your dreams happen: you have to grab them yourself.

I try to lead. I do not follow.

Yeah, I just handle my business.

You've got to be able to think on your own; you've got to be creative. You can't be willing to take a backseat.

Whatever I do, I like to be the one doing it. I don't just like to get someone in to run it and put a name to it.

Instead of waiting around for someone to give you a job, you have to go and create work for yourself. It took me a while to figure that out for myself.

I've never been the guy to sit back and wait until someone approved something I was passionate about.

Very often, if a founder is waiting around for someone else to tell him what to do, the company is near death.

I got tired of asking people to do stuff and waiting on results, so I just took it into my own hands.