Quotes About Execution

The only thing I'll say is when or whether Uber goes public, the most important thing is that the company continues to execute and execute at scale.

When I play a cover-drive, I play it to score runs.

Any time you can come down and score on your first drive, that's what you're trying to accomplish.

When you score, you don't think about what you will do.

You can't score if you can't run.

I like to hit with men in scoring position.

Usually, I can get the job done with guys in scoring position.

A script is only as good as the director who's making it.

Scripts don't get movies made.

I tell my team: if we win the ball, I want to see the ball in the goal in eight seconds. That's my philosophy.

My whole philosophy is 24 seconds or less. I don't care if it's seven or 10 or 20, we just have to get one good shot in those 24 seconds and that's what we'll do.

I'm not the guy who's been in the huddle with 1.7 seconds left to go.

Your first job, as an owner and an entrepreneur, has to be to understand how the business is going to actually work.

Lots of movies don't kind of work as well as they do on the page.

Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.

To be able to finish opportunities that I do get in the paint, that makes a difference.

I think that I can get into the paint anytime I want to. What I have learned is that when I do get into the paint, I do have options.

Getting into the paint is easy. Seeing if the help comes is easy - they either come or they don't. The hard part for me is seeing early where it's coming from and when - and if I can still finish, or if I should pass it off. Deciphering all that without overcomplicating it has been a challenge.

I used to change things in my early paintings to get the nuance or feeling I wanted, but now I plan everything in my head before I do it.

If you like to run and the guys can't run, you don't run. If you like power, and you have guys that can't hit it out of the park, then you start moving guys around.

I'm not going to go out there and throw the ball all around the park and throw it to the other team.

Action comedy, if you can get it right, it is, for me, a particularly brilliant genre. It really is.

Employees get things done. Partners get things done done. But owners get things done done done.

We need to coordinate closely with international partners, right down to tightly-coordinated execution of seizures, searches, and arrests, so that instead of capturing a single criminal, we're taking down an entire enterprise.