James Oliver Quotes

There's a difference between standing up and telling people what you're planning to do and standing up and going and accomplishing something.

There are the talkers and there are the doers.

I'm not about talking and finger-pointing and complaining. I'm about getting things done.

Lots of people dream big and talk about big bold ideas but never do anything. I judge people by what they've done. The ratio of something to nothing is infinite. So just do something.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that I never shoot blanks.

He who does something at the head of one Regiment, will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred.

Leadership is not what you said on the Senate floor. It’s not what you’ve said. It’s what you’ve done.

The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention.

We live in a world where action is what counts.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

A life which does not go into action is a failure.

Well done is better than well said.

My impact on the game was going out there and making things happen.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Ditch the dream and be a doer.

Be a doer and not a critic.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

Never mistake motion for action.

Speak less but act more.

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Nothing comes merely by thinking about it.

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.