John Key Quotes

I refuse to sit on my laurels.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

I don't like sitting around and not doing anything because that's the easiest way to get complacent and get lazy.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

Now's the best time you'll ever have in life to get ahead!

Inaction may be safe, but it builds nothing.

He who goes ahead is always the one that wins.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

You cannot make a living on the past …the stone age did not end because they ran out of stones.

I don't feel like sitting around doing nothing would benefit me.

I've never been one to stay in a complacent place where I just let the grass grow around me.

Fix a few things here, improve a few things there, launch a new feature every so often. That's coasting. And I don't want Basecamp to coast.

Seniority means nothing if you don't do anything with it.

I believe if you become complacent about your work, it leads to a downfall.

I'm not someone to sit on her laurels.

You can never say you've 'made it,' because that's the day you stop progressing and improving.

The vigorous man industriously striving for the improvement of his condition acts neither more nor less than the lethargic man who sluggishly takes things as they come. For to do nothing and to be idle are also action, they too determine the course of events.

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

A little less conversation, a little more ACTION.

Let us then, be up and doing.

I think in terms of what I am able to accomplish and build.

I think we're going in the right direction.

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.