If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll get nothing done.
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Norman Vincent PealeAs quoted in Behavior in Organizations by Greenberg and Baron (1995)
About Norman Vincent Peale
American minister and author of The Power of Positive Thinking. (1898-1993)
More from Norman Vincent Peale
- Believe that problems do have answers. Believe that they can be overcome. Believe that they can be handled. And finally, believe that you can solve them.You Can If You Think You Can (1987)
- People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.Positive Thinking Every Day (1993)
- Happiness will never come if it's a goal in itself; happiness is a by-product of a commitment to worthy causes.The Power of Positive Living (1992)
- When obstacles or difficulties arise, the positive thinker takes them as creative opportunities.Have a Great Day (1986)
- Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.Have a Great Day (1986)
- Empty pockets never held anyone back... it's only empty heads and empty hearts that do it.Enthusiasm Makes the Difference
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- If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.Reid Hoffman
- An entrepreneur is someone who will jump off a cliff and assemble an airplane on the way down.Reid Hoffman
- Do things that don't scale.Paul Graham
- The sidelines are not where you want to live your life. The world needs you in the arena.Tim Cook
- Optimism for me isn't a passive expectation that things will get better; it's a conviction that we can make things better.Melinda French Gates
- We have a strategic plan. It's called doing things.Herb Kelleher
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