Herbie Hancock Quotes

If you have a vision and you are trying to accomplish something, you have to be competitive, or things are going to slip by you.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

In order to get somewhere in life, you need to have a vision. The vision brings you to the table. Without a vision, you just do what everybody else does and you are just there.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

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

You can have the best intentions in the world but if you do nothing, you are nothing.

Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.

I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.

You get given an opportunity, and that is the jumping board; from there you have to build your own path.

I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.

Leadership is a mindset in action. So don't wait for the title. Leadership isn't something that anyone can give you - you have to earn it and claim it for yourself.

Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative - don't wait for someone else to ask you to act.

One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.

If I had to give one piece of advice to a budding entrepreneur, I would say: 'Aim big.'

I do stay busy. I like new challenges.

God helps those who help themselves.

Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.

We're dream chasers. Nobody owes us our dream. But we have to chase it.

Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.

God helps those who help themselves.

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

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

I think if you're an entrepreneur, you've got to dream big and then dream bigger.

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.