Bernie Ecclestone Quotes

A big side of football is reacting to what happens.

It isn't what you find, it's what you do about what you find.

Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.

The real question is: How do you react? What do you do next? Evade responsibilities? Bury yourself in work? What do you do? All three of my novels take up that question, although none gives an answer.

But there is nothing to be done till a horse's head is settled.

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

I think I've always been waiting for things to happen.

Leaders respond when they perceive that there will be a political cost of inaction.

I have always been able to handle situations well once they've happened to me.

You try to make the decisions that you think are best in realtime.

If your game is to take everything on then you have to stick with that and if it's your game to get out of the way of the short ball then that's what you do.

On an important decision one rarely has 100% of the information needed for a good decision no matter how much one spends or how long one waits. And, if one waits too long, he has a different problem and has to start all over. This is the terrible dilemma of the hesitant decision maker.

One of the biggest lessons I've learned recently is that when you don't know what to do, you should do nothing until you figure out what to do because a lot of times you feel like you are pressed against the wall, and you've got to make a decision. You never have to do anything. Don't know what to do? Do nothing.

Sympathy is no substitute for action.

We can't change it. We have to decide how we'll respond.

The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing.

With problems and issues groups face- there is an enormous disconnect between understanding and doing.

Most of what we do to get people ready to act in situations of encounter consists of drilling these lists into them sufficiently deeply so that they will be evoked quickly at the time of the decision.

There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons...You'll wait and wait.

Cultivate the ability to make decisions and think alone. Do not be afraid of failure, but learn from it.

If we are waiting for guaranteed courses of action, we may spend much of our life waiting.

Realism in foreign policy means careful consideration of all aspects pertinent to the issue, before taking a decision. This is the only way you can move from where you are to someplace else.

Ronald Reagan was one of our great foreign policy Presidents. He did not come from the Senate. He did not come from the foreign policy world. He was a governor, but his resolve, his clarity of purpose, his intelligence, his capacity to deal with complex issues and solve tough problems served him extremely well, and if I were elected President, I hope I could rely upon those same qualities.

If you don't make a decision about how you are going to live, then you have already made a decision, haven't you?

Negativity takes no imagination. It's far easier to criticize someone's decisions after they make them than to propose better ones beforehand.