Quotes About Execution

You can pipe anything to anything else, and usually it'll do something. With most of the standard Linux tools, it'll even do what you expect.

Make project plan as simple as possible, but not simpler.

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things

All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them.

Well done is better than well said.

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

If you talk about it, it's a dream, if you envision it, it's possible, but if you schedule it, it's real.

A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Never say 'I could have done that,' because you didn't.

Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.

There are many really stupid ideas that wind up being brilliant, if you can implement them.

The best place to solve a problem is on paper.

Do what you say you are going to do, when you say you are going to do it, in the way you said you were going to do it.

Even a correct decision is wrong when it was taken too late.

Failure is not about insecurity. It's about lack of execution.

An ounce of doing things is worth a pound of theorizing.

All your ideas may be solid or even good .. But you have to Actually EXECUTE on them for them to matter.

Everyone has an idea, but it's really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you with the idea.

Knowing what to do and not doing it is the same as not knowing what to do.

What we learn to do, we learn by doing.

Speak little, do much.

You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.

I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.