Paul Hawken Quotes

I'm practical. I see something, and I do it.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.

You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.

You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.

Governments can't keep looking over the shoulder or at the constellation of stars. You have got to do what you have got to do.

I rarely asks people for advice or permission when I'm planning on doing something I feel strongly about. That only opens the plan up to be crapped on.

That's been the secret to 'Gas Monkey': Move fast. I opened the first restaurant within a year and a half. Most people wait five years. I always move quickly, and in today's market, no matter what you're in, you can recover from a mistake faster than you can recover from not doing.

Naftali Bennett and I have a method in life: We believe in seizing opportunities.

Leaders have to be intensely aware and be bold and flexible enough to adjust course ahead of impending changes.

As an entrepreneur, I like cutting to the chase and getting things done.

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now.

When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

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.

Be decisive. A wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision.

Now's the time to take a chance, come on we've gotta make a stand. What do we have to lose the choice is in our hands.

Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.

A leader is the one who speaks last and acts first.

People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it.

Don't wait on perfect conditions for success to happen; just go ahead and do something!

An athlete needs to read situations before they happen.

Ask forgiveness, not permission. But make sure you bring your results with you.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

I engage and after that I see what to do.

if you are going to be pushed you had better jump