Gary Ryan Blair Quotes

If you wait for perfect conditions to seize an opportunity, you'll be waiting till the day you die.

In politics and life, timing is everything.

High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

The fact that you can't do everything doesn't mean that you shouldn't do what you can do.

The important thing is to know when the hour is right to be seized.

It is all very well to be cautious, but if we are too cautious we will miss our opportunity.

If you think back to the beginning of the label, we knew we had to strike quickly and aggressively and go for the brass ring.

If you get an opportunity, you get an opportunity, but it really comes down to the people behind the scenes and the manager. You can't do anything about it.

Need always plays into your decisions more as the draft unfolds.

I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that's not pulling the trigger.

Once you decide to do something, and you're pretty sure you're right, then you gotta go ahead and do it. Because if you piddle around, somebody else will beat you to it.

Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.

Many risks fail because they were not taken in time. Too many risks are postponed until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made. This does not mean that one should say, Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! That is foolish and self-destructive. . . . But don't sit back waiting for the perfect moment. It almost never comes.

The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.

Why cannot one always do, not only the right thing, but at the right time?

Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.

We all have many opportunities, but limited capacity to pursue them. Make choices, focus your time and energy, so that you can submit your share of masterpieces to the greater good.

I think one key part of doing more with less is to be more strategic, to realize what the objectives you're truly trying to accomplish are and then to drive with greater focus towards those objectives.

The hard part of running a business is that there are a hundred things that you could be doing, and only five of those actually matter, and only one of them matters more than all of the rest of them combined. So figuring out there is a critical path thing to focus on and ignoring everything else is really important.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.