Quotes About Execution

Education consist, not so much of knowledge, but knowledge effectively and persistently applied. Men are paid, not merely for what they know, but more particularly for what they do with that which they know.

The world does not pay men for that which they know. It pays them for what they DO, or induce others to do.

A man may become a walking encyclopaedia of knowledge without possessing any power of value. This knowledge becomes power only to the extent that it is organized, classified and put into action.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

The way to success is the way to action, based upon organized thinking followed by action, action, action.

Education consists, not so much of knowledge, but of knowledge effectively and persistently APPLIED.

deeds, and not words, are what count most'.

PLANOS DEFINIDOS: líderes bem-sucedidos devem planejar o trabalho e trabalhar seus planos. Líderes que atuam por adivinhação, sem planos práticos e definidos, são como um navio sem leme. Mais cedo ou mais tarde vão bater nas pedras.

To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to "know" is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do.

Any person is educated who knows where to get knowledge when needed, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action.

Give me a few lines written by any man and I will find enough to get him hung" goes the saying attributed to Richelieu, Voltaire, Talleyrand (a vicious censor during the French revolution phase of terror), and a few others.

behavioral problem; we like to emit logical and rational ideas but we do not necessarily enjoy this execution. Strange as it sounds, this point has only been discovered very recently (we will see that we are not genetically fit to be rational and act rationally; we are merely fit for the maximum probability of transmitting our genes in some given unsophisticated environment).

Don't tell me what you "think," just tell me what's in your portfolio.

Entrepreneurs are selected to be just doers, not thinkers, and doers do, they don't talk.

But top management is only paid on result—no matter the process.

In practice, it is done by threshold, for ease of execution, not complicated rules: you start betting aggressively whenever you have a profit, never when you have a deficit, as if a switch was turned on or off. This method is practiced by probably every single trader who has survived.

I know very few people who, when they say they want to do something, end up doing it.

The doer wins by doing, not convincing.

the talker versus the doer.

Those who talk should do and only those who do should talk

Clergymen, judges, statesmen--the wisest, calmest, holiest persons of their day--stood in the inner circle round about the gallows, loudest to applaud the work of blood, latest to confess themselves miserably deceived.

es el miedo terrible que se apodera de todos los grandes artistas y que les hace desear ardientemente apropiarse de todos los medios de expresión, para que las vacilaciones de la mano jamás alteren los órdenes del espíritu; para que por fin la ejecución, la ejecución ideal, se vuelva tan inconsciente, tan fluida como la digestión para el cerebro del hombre sano que acaba de cenar.

knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge at all.

You try your best to love the world despite obvious flaws in design and execution and you take care of whatever needy things present themselves to you during your passage through it. Otherwise you're worthless.