Top 45 If You Want Something Done Quotes
#1. If you want something done, give it to someone who's busy!
Terry Pratchett
#2. If you want something done, you sure as hell better do it yourself.
Rachel Van Dyken
#4. If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
Margaret Thatcher
#5. They say if somebody has done something you want to do, all you need to do is go out and copy them.
Chael Sonnen
#6. If you want to be creative, don't try to do something new. Doing something new means NOT doing what's been done before, and that's a negative impulse. Negative impulses are frustrating. They're the opposite of creativity, and they never yield good ideas ...
Eva Zeisel
#7. I do what I want to do. It was a brash statement of(her)girlhood. Now she was an adult, the boast seemed quaint. For rarely do you know what you want. Even after you've done it you can't say clearly if that was what you'd wanted or just something that happened to you, like weather.
Joyce Carol Oates
#8. If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do. Lucille Ball
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Lucille Ball
#10. If you want a studio to back you, you want to be doing something that's been done to death!
Ben Lewin
#11. I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
Halsey
#12. If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. This especially includes your health care.
Andrew Saul
#13. When you're young, you want to convince everyone that you're right and they're wrong. As you get older, it's not important if you are right or wrong, it's important that you work together with other people and get something done.
Gino Vannelli
#14. If you want to so something you've never done before, you will have to believe something you've never believed before.
Paul Clayton Gibbs
#15. If you want to hear Him say, 'Well done,' you need to do something well.
Scott Wilson
#16. If you think about your and my grandchildren, this is what really worries me. I don't want them - if I'm still alive by then - to say, 'Why didn't you do something about it?', when you could have done.
Prince Charles
#17. If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.
Mahatma Gandhi
#18. That's why I love improvisational theater so much - you do it [scene] once and then it's done. You don't get bogged down with a lot of preplanning and repetition. If I do something and it gets a laugh, I don't want to do it again. Why bother? I'm just repeating myself. It's boring.
Amy Sedaris
#19. I think we can be very narrow-minded in this country; you see something that someone's done and immediately want them to do the same thing again - but if they don't, they're criticised for not doing the same thing again, but if they do they're just repeating themselves.
Andy Serkis
#20. When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
Adam D'Angelo
#21. If you want to do something but cannot, then before God, who knows our hearts, it is as if we have done it. This is true whether the intended action is good or bad.
St. Mark The Ascetic
#22. If you want to get something said in the politics tell a man. If you want to get something done in the politics tell a woman
Margaret Thatcher
#23. Did you ever think you had all the answers when you were in the thick of something, but then when you take a step back, you realize you were so busy getting things done that you never stopped to ask yourself if it's what you really want to do?
Jana Deleon
#24. I've been the teenage success, I've been homeless and driving around in my car and not knowing where to eat. You just want to keep working and learning, and I was doing that. If I hadn't done 'Wild Bill,' I'm sure I would have acted in something else.
Dexter Fletcher
#25. If you borrow money to make money, you've done something magical. On the other hand, if you go into debt to pay your bills or buy something you want but don't need, you've done something stupid. Stupid and short-sighted and ultimately life-changing for the worse ...
Seth Godin
#26. If you do what you've always done, you get what you've always gotten. If you want something different, then make something different.
H.M. Ward
#27. If you want something you have never had, you must do something you have never done.
Isra Sravenheart
#28. Hey, if you want something done right, don't ask me.
Si Robertson
#29. One hundred percent my mother, who would always say, "If you want something done, do it yourself." She must have said that 100 times to me - as a child, as a young woman, yesterday on the phone.
Reese Witherspoon
#30. I will make myself sick on films, just because you want everything to be right. I can't sleep if something hasn't been done or is out of place.
Sandra Bullock
#31. If you rely on finding time to do something, it will never be done. If you want to find time, you must make time.
Josh Kaufman
#33. If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man.
Stephen Covey
#34. I guarantee, that if I am elected, I will take over the White House, hang out, shoot pool, scratch my ass, and not do a damn thing ... Which is to say, if you want something done, don't come to me to do it for you; you got to get together and figure out how to do it yourselves. Is that a deal?
Utah Phillips
#35. The aphorism "If you want something done, ask a busy woman" is in direct acknowledgment of the efficiency boot camp parenthood puts you through.
Caitlin Moran
#36. If you swap it about, do television, theatre, film, you can go on surprising yourself. The problem is you get employed to do something you've already done. They want something from that sheep pen of performances they've seen you do.
Kenneth Cranham
#37. If you want something you've never had
You must be willing to do something you've never done.
Thomas Jefferson
#38. If you want something done right, just forget it.
Neil Peart
#39. I don't like just traveling in for a short time. I've done that before, because sometimes you work for magazines and they have a budget, and if you're working for them, they want something by a certain time.
Joe Sacco
#40. Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals.
Donald Trump
#41. If you want to learn to do something right, watch someone who has done it successfully.
Abhishek Kumar
#42. If you want something done, ask. If you want something done quickly, ask, and then begin counting down from ten with no explanation.
Mahatma Gandhi
#43. This is the question I want everyone to ask yourself every single day when you come up with something you feel that needs to be done: if not now, then when? And if not me, then who?
Mick Ebeling
#44. The old saying 'if you want something done, then do it yourself' is as relevant now as it was then,
Anders Behring Breivik
#45. If you go through some big corporate change, it's just not going to be the same. If we sold to Yahoo, they would have done something different; if you want to continue your vision of the company, then don't sell because there's inevitably going to be some change.
Mark Zuckerberg