Quotes About Execution

The plan is useless; it's the planning that's important.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Feeling tells you what you want to say. Technique gives you tools with which to say it.

Focus on the play like it has a history and a life of its own.

In golf as in life, it's the follow through that makes the difference.

There are three choices in life and sport - either you do it, you don't do it or you think about it. Most humans think about it. We will do it.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

I can airmail the golf ball, but sometimes I don't put the right address on it.

The champion wins first, then walks into the arena. Everybody else walks into the arena and then tries to figure out what to do.

When things are done right, be emotional. When things are done poorly, be nonemotional, matter-of-fact, and consequential.

There are three particularly important issues involved in delivering customer value: focusing on innovation rather than efficiency and optimization, concentrating on execution, and lean thinking.

Agile Project Management is an execution-biased model, not a planning-and-control-biased model.

Be quick, but don't hurry.

Drucker's observation means that the controls should be consistent with the strategy, not that they should be selected after the strategy is implemented.

A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare.

thinking divorced from action lacks productivity

He was guillotined in the French Revolution, and he said he'd keep blinking his eyes after his head was off, for as long as he had consciousness. He blinked seventeen times. That's a scientist," Gill said.

El conocimiento aplicado es poder". Si sabes y no haces las cosas, no sabes nada. Es así de sencillo.

Squeezing the most out of life takes a little executive planning. I used to say to the children when they were growing up, "If you have twelve things to do, and twelve hours to do them in, don't spend the first ten hours doing just one thing or you'll find yourself in an awful mess at the end of the day. Plan. And everything will get done.

Strategy explains how an organization, faced with competition, will achieve superior performance.

Strategy explains how an organization, faced with competition, will achieve superior performance. The definition is deceptively simple.

Charles Schwab created the company that bears his name—and a new category known as discount brokerage—around a different value chain. Not all customers want advice, so why should they have to pay for it? Take away all the activities needed to give advice, focus instead on executing trades, and you can create a different kind of value: low-cost trades that make stock ownership accessible to a wider customer base.

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

Sometimes the best plays are performed behind the scenes