Quotes About Execution

At the end of the day, you can't win games when you're letting goals in.

I've had the liberty of having a lot of control in the offences I've been a part of because I get the game pretty well, and I pick things up fast.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.

It's nice when someone knows their lines.

Some guys have all this talent, and you wonder why they can't put it all together. Well, they don't do any of the little things.

When you're at a club like Liverpool, it's always about what you can do with the ball.

The champs are the guys who can do it the best, to lock it in for 25 minutes and do what they plan to do.

I'm an implementer of policy, not a maker of policy.

Great companies have to manage the cadence of what they do.

Look first at management. That's the key to a company.

Xerox is really good at managing documents, and we're definitely good at managing through a process.

I'd played some very good games, at Manchester United, at Tottenham Hotspur, but they'd lacked a goal. There've been times when I could have scored myself, but I've played a pass to a team-mate instead.

Just like the athlete who has mapped out a plan to become one of the best athletes in the world by putting together a training program and executing it, he too should map out a financial plan from the beginning of his athletic career throughout every stage of his career.

It's one thing to have the vision for a new business, Schumpeter writes, but entirely something else to figure out how to do it. Here we have the second element of entrepreneurship, which involves organizing the business.

I feel confident that I could persuade a millionaire on Friday to subsidize a revolution for Saturday out of which he would make a huge profit on Sunday even though he was certain to be executed on Monday.1 —Saul Alinsky

day a product development process starts, it is behind schedule and above budget.

We bridge the Gulf of Execution through the use of signifiers, constraints, mappings, and a conceptual model. We bridge the Gulf of Evaluation through the use of feedback and a conceptual model.

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.

The behavioral level in human beings is especially valuable for well-learned, routine operations. This is where the skilled performer excels.

Of course we did everything right, insofar as we were able to imagine what right was.

One of the biggest advantages of these three demand-focused approaches, demand blocking, WIP purging, and flexible requirements, is the speed with which they can be executed.

Product development produces the recipes for products, not the products themselves.

Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.