Quotes About Execution

The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority.

Classically, the ability to invent and execute plans was believed to be limited to only three species: chimpanzees, gorillas, and human beings.

Said another way, the Entrepreneurial Model has less to do with what's done in a business and more to do with how it's done. The commodity isn't what's important—the way it's delivered is. When The Entrepreneur creates the model

It is—first, last, and always—about how you act.

The Entrepreneurial Perspective asks the question: "How must the business work?" The Technician's Perspective asks: "What work has to be done?

the difference between creativity and Innovation is the difference between thinking about getting things done in the world and getting things done.

Marino Santos y sus hombres resumieron sus funciones en cinco elementos esenciales: 1. Controlar lo que se vende. 2. Controlar cómo se vende. 3. Controlar cómo se planifica. 4. Controlar cómo se construye y se instala. 5. Controlar cómo se controla. Cuando un contratista perdía de vista alguno de estos cinco puntos de control, como los llamaban Marino Santos y sus hombres, el trabajo no finalizaba como se había acordado. Eso no sería

Digital technology did not really lend itself to a simple division of labor between creative (generating the ideas) and production (executing the ideas). In an increasing number of cases, creativity was all in the execution, especially in YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Balkanization

If you don't take the time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

Certainly, the perception of the average consumer is a vital part of every business, and if a retailer, service provider, or corporation is sending out signals that its approach is lackadaisical, its methods halfhearted, and its execution indifferent, the business in question could suffer severe-and in some cases, irreparable-losses.

They would learn to evaluate a decision not by its outcomes--whether it turned out to be right or wrong--but by the process that led to it. The job of the decision maker wasn't to be right but to figure out the odds in any decision and play them well.

The specific thing that blew my mind was using multiple semi-effective strategies together. There was no silver bullet. Right then I say, 'This is important. This has legs. It's not my job. I don't give a shit. I'm working on this.

They do the same thing. Two tight ends on Lawrence

Instead of presenting a catalog of all known creative techniques and abandoning you to puzzle out which ones actually work, I started with the ideas (fish) and worked backwards to each creator (fisherman). Then I identified the technique that caught the idea.

Image the whole, then execute the parts— Fancy the fabric Quite, ere you build, ere steel strike fire from quartz Ere mortar dab brick!

What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism—its supreme test and, as now is coming clear, its most abject failure. You can argue, as some diehards will do, that the problem was one of faulty execution or you can accept that the underlying tenets of the ideology contained the seeds of the eventual disaster.

Architects and food at a construction site equals indigestion. We're always looking for details that haven't been executed correctly.

My thing is to execute the given play, execute the game plan to the best of my ability. If the option is for me to make a play when I have to, I will. Or I'll put myself in the best situation to do so.

Game management is very important. Realizing the situation of a match.

Teams like the Patriots stress situational football moreso than a lot of other teams in the NFL.

There's plenty of situations where we'll come up with guys on base, less than two outs, and those are opportunities for us to help ourselves out.

I think people forget that a lot of directing is just real management of the size of a production.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

You've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out.