Strike with Decisive Action Quotes

Ideas are cheap and everywhere; action is rare.  The man who moves now, before conditions are perfect, laps everyone still preparing to start.  This Execution path holds the greatest quotes ever gathered on taking decisive action.  Scroll through and put them to work.
The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start.
Most decisions should probably be made with somewhere around 70% of the information you wish you had. If you wait for 90%, in most cases, you’re probably being slow.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
I have seen in the most significant of circumstances, that some little thing always decides great events.
Sometimes the riskiest decision you can make is to do nothing.
Remember that the biggest gap in the world is between ”I should” and ”I did.”
Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed.
An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.
The stock market is a no-called-strike game. You don’t have to swing at everything – you can wait for your pitch.
There’s never just one cockroach in the kitchen.
First come the innovators, then come the imitators, then come the idiots.
The world doesn’t pay you for what you know, it pays you for what you do.
Remember, it’s more mentally tiring to think about what has to be done, and all the things that might go wrong, than it is to physically do the job.
Screw it, let’s do it.
Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.
Once a decision is carefully reached, act! Get busy carrying out your decision – and dismiss all anxiety of the outcome
Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.
Witness the choices you make in every moment. The best way to prepare for any moment in the future is to be fully conscious in the present.
Lions don’t have to roar. There is power in silence, confidence, and persistence. Those who work don’t talk, and those who talk don’t work.
Make your move before you are ready!
It really doesn’t matter what’s going on right now. The only thing that matters is what you’re going to do about it. Do something powerful!
Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.
Doubts can be swept away only by deeds.
The maxim, ‘Nothing prevails but perfection,’ may be spelled paralysis.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
Things do not get better by being left alone.
Without execution, thinking is mere idleness.
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
Cicero
It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.
Cicero
Man was born for two things - thinking and acting.
Cicero
When preparation becomes a form of procrastination, you need to change something. You don’t want to merely be planning. You want to be practicing.
If you are bummed by the state of the world, go build something.
Pick a direction and get moving. Once you start, you learn along the way and there are plenty of opportunities to refine your plan.
Questions are answered as you move, not before you move. Moving forward with an answer that is partially correct will usually fill in the gaps faster than waiting until you come up with a plan that is perfectly correct.
Making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.
Fortunate are those who take the first steps.
Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice.
Your decision to walk creates the path ahead.
Stop thinking about life and choose to live it.
Knowledge without transformation is not wisdom.
Postpone joy, it will diminish. Postpone a problem, it will grow.
When in doubt, vary, change, solve the problem, seize the opportunity, experiment, try something new (consistent, of course, with the core ideology)-even if you can’t predict precisely how things will turn out. Do something. If one thing fails, try another. Fix. Try. Do. Adjust. Move. Act. No matter what, don’t sit still.
To learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.
Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it.
Perfectionism is the enemy of profitability.
Once you are prepared and you think you have every angle of preparation covered, you have to go for it.
If you really want to be successful at something, you’ll find that you put the time in. You won’t just ask somebody if it’s a good idea, you’ll go figure out if it’s a good idea.
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