Bob Taft Quotes

Australians are a passionate lot. We are also a very practical lot.

I'm practical. I see something, and I do it.

I'm a resourceful guy!

I'm a problem-solver.

I'm scrappy.

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?

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

My father has always been such a doer.

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.

Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.

But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Part of America is we've always had people that can get things done.

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.

The companies we admire are like the people we admire: resilient, authentic, personable, collaborative, ambitious, and humble.

If I had criteria, it would just be that I want to play active people who can solve problems, not people who have things thrust in their lap and need somebody to solve their problems for them.

Work hard, use your common sense and don't be afraid to trust your instincts.

If I need something, I'll invent it.

Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, a problem-solving people. And when given a direction and given a plan, they'll sign on.

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

Don't just analyze a problem - solve it.

I want to be surprised by what people do, I don't want to work with people who need to be told what to do. I want people to show me what they've got.

The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.