Hubert Humphrey Quotes

If you take action, you will be judged. There's no way around it. The alternative, of course, is much safer. To be ignored. Up to you.

The only risk we run is by doing nothing.

One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.'

You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.

I am part of a political class that is paralyzed by the prospect of risk.

The real risk is doing nothing.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

Feedback for leaders is often nuanced and difficult to deliver. That said, hearing you are passive-aggressive from 10 different people described 10 different ways becomes hard to ignore.

[William Jennings Bryan] thinks that to say something is to do something, which is an imperfect view of administration.

I do not believe that reorganization will fix what is wrong with our intelligence community….Failures were caused by performance, not organization.

Who never wins can rarely lose, Who never climbs as rarely falls.

I'm not one to get bad reviews.

I am not going to do anything unless I am afraid of it.

You can take a bit of criticism from your manager now and then, but you have to react to it which I have done.

Who does not talk cannot be judged. Who does not shoot the penalty cannot miss.

It is better for your career to do nothing, than to do something and attract criticism.

The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear.

There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before.

But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.

There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.

Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.