Seizing the initiative can make all the difference between winning and loosing. — Thomas M. Davis Copy Share Image
When I started at NBC, I'm quite sure there wasn't a plan or initiative that we need to make sure the girls… — Stephanie Ruhle Copy Share Image
Progress will march if we hold an abiding faith in the intelligence, the initiative, the character, the courage, and the divine touch… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellsprings of initiative and… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The initiative of the Five Year Plan and of the accelerated collectivization belongs entirely to the Left Opposition, in uninterrupted and sharp… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
In landing operations, retreat is impossible, to surrender is as ignoble as it is foolish. above all else remember that we as… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
I try to build on our management philosophy. I try to understand what the threats and opportunities are for us. Uh, I… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
We Americans write our own history. And the chapters of which we're proudest are the ones where we had the courage to… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
If we succeed in learning more about how to expand program innovations from pilot projects so that they have broader program impact,… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
What the carburetor, sparkplug and self-starter are to an automobile, initiative, private enterprise and executive ability are to industry as a whole,… — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
While I support initiatives to improve quality and efficiency in Medicare, I do not believe that these efficiencies should come at the… — Shelley Berkley Copy Share Image
My father told me "If you choose to let this money destroy your initiative and independence, then it will be a curse… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
The end and goal of any society as it addresses the problem of education is to raise the ability, the initiative and… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years. And I just focused almost exclusively on my initiatives… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My colleagues from the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education are working on participatory public health initiatives in Michigan, and there… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
As long as nuclear weapons exist, there is a risk that they will be used. And the consequences of their use would… — Margot Wallstrom Copy Share Image
It's been years, decades, since a president has lost a major trade initiative. That would be bad headlines. — Gwen Ifill Copy Share Image
A whole range of activities remained largely unregulated, spontaneously generating separate forms of organisation, and existing independently of any consecrated 'official' To… — Judith Herrin Copy Share Image
Wal-Mart announced it will create 10,000 jobs in the United States just [2017] year because of our various plans and initiatives. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
America's skyscrapers were not built by public funds nor for a public purpose: they were built by the energy, initiative and wealth… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
The qualities that made for success in a fighter-pilot seemed to be just those sturdy qualities that made for success in other… — Jim Bailey Copy Share Image
During the last five years, those four advantages-costs, products, people, goodwill-have been the salvation of Interface during a recession that saw our… — Ray Anderson Copy Share Image
