Bruce Barton Quotes

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

It's what you do and not what you say. If you're not part of the future, then get out of the way!

Any action is better than no action at all.

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new.

talk was cheap and useless. Action was what mattered. And me, I was moving. Now, again, always.

Critics hang around and wait for others to make mistakes. But the real doers of the world have not time for criticizing others. They are too busy doing, making mistakes, improving, making progress.

If you don't make bold moves, the world doesn't move forward.

Don't wait. If it's not right, move on.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

If you want to do things – to change things – you must run the risk of not succeeding.

We must be headlights and not taillights.

Leaders don't look backwards to condemn what has already been done; they look forward to create a better future.

If you change nothing, nothing will change.

We have to imagine change before we can begin to move toward it.

Move onward and carry into practice.

For me, being an innovator doesn't mean being more intelligent, more rich, it's not a word, it's an action.

Stop stewing and start doing!

Action always beats inaction.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead; that is where your future lies. Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. There are really only three types of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who say, What happened?