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Quotes About Execution

You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
~ Author unknown, 1920s
The best information in the world is useless if we do nothing with it
~ H.W. Mann
Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is eighty percent of being a successful hitter. The other twenty percent is just execution.
~ Hank Aaron
Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.
~ Harold Geneen
Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.
~ Harold Geneen
You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
~ Harold Geneen
Planning is deciding in advance what to do and how to do it. Planning bridges the gap between where we are and where we want to go. It makes it possible for things to occur which would not otherwise happen.
~ Harold Koontz
You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
~ Harold S. Geneen
The day they brought him forth to die they feared he might incite the crowd (the man was famous for his eloquence). And so his captors placed upon his face an iron mask in which he could not speak. That is how they burned him. That is how he died, without a word, in front of everyone.
~ Heather McHugh
strategy formation walks on two feet, one deliberate, the other emergent.
~ Lawrence Freedman
viewing strategy as "the art of making use of time and space";
~ Lawrence Freedman
Los planes son inútiles», decía el presidente Eisenhower, apoyado en su experiencia militar, «pero la planificación lo es todo».
~ Lawrence Freedman
desde el objetivo final, recorría hacia atrás con el pensamiento una compleja red de medios (y obstáculos) para lograrlo».
~ Lawrence Freedman
Un plan se convirtió en una serie de propuestas detalladas sobre cómo alcanzar un objetivo.
~ Lawrence Freedman
La estrategia sin táctica es el camino más lento hacia la victoria. La táctica sin estrategia es el ruido antes de la derrota. Sun Tzu
~ Lawrence Freedman
la palabra «estrategia» sigue siendo la mejor para expresar el proceso de ideas anticipatorias referidas a acciones dirigidas a conseguir nuestos objetivos de acuerdo con nuestras posibilidades.
~ Lawrence Freedman
La estrategia decide dónde actuar; la logística traslada las tropas hasta ese punto; la táctica general dedide el modo de ejecutar la acción y el uso de las tropas».[7]
~ Lawrence Freedman
Von Moltke saw the tactical task as conceptually simple—destroying as much of the enemy force as possible—but practically challenging, which was why his preparations for battle were meticulous. Once battle was done strategy came back into play.
~ Lawrence Freedman
What you are doing on stage is the most important thing in the world at the present moment; and your memory must tell you how it is to be done.
~ Lee Strasberg
Rule three hundred of obscure leadership if it's your idea, you get to implement it.
~ Leland Exton Modesitt, Jr.
But unlike this book, the dictionary also discusses words that are far more pleasant to contemplate. The word "bubble" is in the dictionary, for instance, as is the word "peacock," the word "vacation," and the words "the" "author's" "execution" "has" "been" "canceled," which make up a sentence that is always pleasant to hear. So
~ Lemony Snicket
Plan the sale when you plan the ad.
~ Leo Burnett
porque uma ideia tão justa não poderá ser estéril, um fim tão gracioso merece ser executado com obstinação.
~ Leo Tolstoi
The unfortunate ones of the world were subjected to a more lingering torment, and the fortunate ones were merely condemned to watch it from a front seat, unwilling tricoteuses at an execution they were powerless to prevent. The least they could do was not to turn away their eyes; for with such a picture stamped upon the retina of their memory they would not be able to lie easy until they had done their best to ensure that it could never happen again.
~ Jan Struther