Quotes About Execution

One rather thick volume was titled Means of Execution Through the Ages, and was placed with an elegant balance of nonchalance and availability at the eye level of anyone entering the room. As threats went, it was nearly subliminal—and perhaps it was placed there for that very reason.

When it's all over, you're remembered for what you did, not what you said you were going to do.

You know why I think we still execute people? Because, even if we don't want to say it out loud-for the really heinous crimes, we want to know that there's a really heinous punishment. Simple as that. We want to bring society closer together-huddle and circle our wagons-and that means getting rid of people we think are incapable of learning a moral lesson. I guess the question is: Who gets to identify those people? And what if, God forbid, they got it wrong?

It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done and do it coolly.

My say nothing but do something way of doing things appears to be being misunderstood.

The worst thing you can do is start slow, or con yourself into thinking that you can take your time getting into a match. The curtain is up so youve got to perform.

I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

Success without planning is impossible.

You cant achieve your goals merely by dreaming and thinking about it. You have to take appropriate steps in order to achieve your goals.

Ideas are meaningless without action. Everyone has ideas. To succeed, make your ideas real. Make them happen.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

Don't waste your time talking about what you should have done, use your time instead and do the next thing that is needed to be done.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

Do today what you want to postpone until tomorrow.

any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people.

Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist; but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.

If he gave an assignment, he didn't really care how it was done or who did it or what problems they had. It just had to get done, and that was that.

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

even the finest of plans can fail when they're poorly instantiated.

even magnificent frameworks can't save the day if those frameworks have been inadequately implemented.

While good strategy content is based on a compelling value proposition for buyers with a robust profit proposition for the organization, sustainable strategy execution is based largely on a motivating-people proposition.

Commitment, trust, and voluntary cooperation are not merely attitudes or behaviors. They are intangible capital. They allow companies to stand apart in the speed, quality, and consistency of their execution and to implement strategic shifts fast at low cost.

The planning process doesn't produce strategy