Quotes About Execution

Even for an area I know well, I prepare a shooting list of subjects I need.

You can read about it all you want, but there is no substitute for just doing it.

There is nothing you can substitute for reps and carries in a game.

We focus on a very specific kind of talent in this book—namely, talent with a creative spark—and that is where the bureaucratic approach is most deadly. In referring to the creative spark, we mean people who generate new ideas, start new institutions, develop new methods for executing on known products, lead intellectual or charitable movements, or inspire others by their very presence, leadership, and charisma, regardless of the context.

Con una solemnidad digna de tiras cómicas clásicas, Colón aprovecha su conocimiento de un inminente eclipse lunar. Varado desde hace ocho meses en la costa de Jamaica, ya no logra convencer a los indios de que le traigan comida gratis; los amenaza entonces con robarles la luna y, la noche del 29 de febrero de 1504, empieza a poner en ejecución su amenaza, ante los ojos aterrados de los caciques… El éxito es inmediato.

You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.

Failing to plan means planning to fail. What are your goals?

Don't worry about the intensity and direction of the putt -- until you get on the green!

Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true.

After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done.

Your next move is not a public issue. Don't poster it everywhere. Just Plan and execute with extreme silence.

Goals without routines are wishes; routines without goals are aimless. The most successful business leaders have a clear vision and the disciplines (routines) to make it a reality.

Bear in mind that no matter how small a thing you want to do, plan it ahead of time, think it over and allot a certain time for you to prepare your plans, for a mediocre plan is better than a brilliant unprepared plan that is haphazardly carried out.

When we start organizing, we tend to put tactics before reason. We see a messy space and launch a wild, full frontal assault before we understand the background of the problem and equip ourselves to meet the challenge. This is like going into battle unarmed without knowing our enemy!

In England and France, they executed their kings some centuries ago, but we were late with ours.

His office led into a larger one in which two women of indeterminate age were attacking typewriters as though they were engaged in a race and the loser was to be executed the next morning.

The best way to learn is to do; the worst way to teach is to talk.

The best way to let others know what you're going to do is to actually do it.

The best way to get a project done faster is to start sooner

The best way to succeed in this world is to act on the advice you give to others.

All the best artists have shown that the greatest achievement in the production of fine color is the concealment of pigments, and not the parade of them; and we may say the same of execution.

The best way to win is to play well early or late in the game. The middle part tends to take care of itself.

A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much.