Danny Ainge Quotes

If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

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

You always have to be thinking about your opportunity. You always have to be ready.

Wherever there is an opportunity is where you will find me.

We do not need to have an agreed set of goals before we do something ambitious!

Prepare while others are daydreaming.

It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long.

No high achiever ever woke up in the morning and said ‘let’s see what happens.’

Successful people are always thinking about what they can do to move to the next level. Initiative is the drive to do it - to take the first step, and then the next step. The great thing about initiative - is that it's free and available to everyone.

The world's not going to wait for you. If you have an idea, put some effort behind it and get it out there.

You aim for what you want and if you don't get it, you don't get it, but if you don't aim, you don't get anything.

I never considered my dreams wasted energy; they were invariably linked to some form of action. When I dreamed about having a lemonade stand, for example, it wasn't long before I set up a lemonade stand.

If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.

People talk about getting lucky breaks in their careers. I’m living proof that the “lucky breaks” theory is simply wrong. You get to make your own luck... The world is run by those who show up…not those who wait to be asked.

I woke up. I was like, "Look, you can do anything you want - and you want a lot of things, so you should get to work."

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

I'm always looking for opportunities, even when they're not offered to me. I will have no hesitation to pick up the phone and call a director or call a writer.

If you wait until all the lights are 'green' before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top.

Are you waiting for success to arrive, or are you going out to find where it is hiding?

The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move.

The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep.

When people say to me: "Oh don't worry, if one door closes another one opens..." If one door closes for me, go through the window - I'm not interested in waiting around for people to give me opportunities. I try and make things happen and if I am given opportunities I take them and work harder.

Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women.

Don't be a damned ammunition wagon. Be a rifle!