Michael Waltrip Quotes

In order to succeed it is not necessary to be much cleverer than other people. All you have to do is be one day ahead of them.

To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.

If you believe that some day it's going to happen, some day it probably will happen. You just have to make sure you're there when it's happening, and ideally you're at the front of the parade, and the principle beneficiary of when it happens.

We can't keep playing catch up as we have done for every season I've been here.

I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.

Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.

We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.

You have to think a little smarter, be proactive, not reactive.

I don't have a rear-view mirror.

I think we need ideas for the future.

I always wanted to just stay 10 steps ahead of everybody. It's just been like that my whole life.

We've gotta be trying to think of what's coming next before it comes next.

We need to make sure we are constantly staying ahead, thinking about what is coming.

When I plan ahead, I don't just plan what I'm doing tomorrow. I also plan what I'm doing five years from now.

The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.

I think it's very important to know what you want to do next versus just leave it up to chance, really position yourself in the right footings to get to where you want to be.

Both of us don't go backwards and I think that is the key to the fight. Whoever ends up going backwards is going to lose.

Take some time to sit down and figure out how your big rival is promoting their brand and plan something smarter and more creative for yours!

Long term thinking is so rare anywhere, but especially in startups. This is a huge advantage if you do it.

Think about where you're going and never mind where you've been. Don't spend any more time justifying any of that stuff.

This idea of anticipation is key to investing and to business generally. You can't wait for an opportunity to become obvious. You have to think, "Here's what other people and companies have done under certain circumstances. Now, under these new circumstances, how is this management likely to behave?"

Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It is the far sight, the quiet and confident patience, that, above all other attributes, separate man from man, and near him to his Maker; and there is no action nor art, whose majesty we may not measure by this test.

My dreams are my dress rehearsals for my future.

A new world order is in the making, and it is up to us to prepare ourselves that we may take our rightful place in it.

Without a future well designed we take hesitant steps.