David Viscott Quotes

You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.

People who make a difference never wait for just the right time. They know that it will never arrive.

If you wait for perfect conditions to seize an opportunity, you'll be waiting till the day you die.

There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

In the media business and as a creative executive, if you don't take risks, you're dead in the water. Calculated risk-taking is essential for success.

Once you decide to do something, and you're pretty sure you're right, then you gotta go ahead and do it. Because if you piddle around, somebody else will beat you to it.

Start before you’re ready.

Stop stewing and start doing!

Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.

Load the ship and set out. No one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbor. Cautious people say, 'I'll do nothing until I can be sure.' Merchants know better. If you do nothing, you lose. Don't be one of those merchants who wont risk the ocean.

The biggest risk of all is not taking one.

The timing of your decision is just as important as the decision you make.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act!

He that counts all cost will never put plough in the earth.

My grandfather used to say 'Eat the biggest crabs first, that way you're always eating the biggest crabs.' In making a TV show, that means if you have a big funny or smart idea for an episode or a scene or a joke, go for it. Don't save it for another season or another episode, because you may not have the right time again. It's good advice for television, but truly stellar advice for eating crabs.

Make your move BEFORE you are ready!

Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.

You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

The time to hesitate is through.

Screw it, just do it!

I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.

I have found, whether you have a tiny business or a big business, if you don't jump on something right away, it's like a bird flying by-it flies off.

Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart