Rachel Maddow Quotes

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

As an entrepreneur, I like cutting to the chase and getting things done.

I like to do things that get results. Results are all that matters.

My actual passion is getting things done.

I think I'm decisive, and I like to get things done quickly. So if that comes across as intimidation, I'm sorry to hear it. But it's more in the interest of getting things done.

I'm definitely not one to prolong things and drag it out, that's not really my personality.

I am quite no-nonsense myself.

You can be both progressive and want to get things done - they're not mutually exclusive and that's what I bring.

I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what is to be done in given circumstances and does it. He does not beat about the bush for difficulties or excuses, but goes the shortest and most effectual way to work to attain his own ends, or to accomplish a useful object.

We are about getting things done. We are not about the blame game. We are not about making excuses.

We need a doer, not a talker.

Do it. Do it right. Do it right now.

I don't waste time being soft. I'm not cold, but I don't like being, wasting my time with-life's too short.

I'm not a debater. I get things done.

For her, choices were simple; either there was an action she could take to improve the situation, in which case she took it, or there was not, and everything else said on the subject was so much meaningless noise.

I always want to be as quick and decisive as I can be.

We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.

You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.

To the extent I can, I try to maintain a laser focus on what needs to get done from a priority standpoint. And not just from an urgency standpoint, but from a value-added standpoint. So where can I add the most value? Where is my time best spent?

I'm just about that action, boss. I ain't ever see no talking win me nothin'.

That's how I operate best. I just ignore feelings and jump right into the next thing.

Take massive action. So many people wait until they have all the answers.

If you can't do it with one bullet, don't do it at all.

There's nothing for getting you good fast like having to be good fast, if that makes any sense.

I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.