Quotes About Execution

You can't try to be explosive and make the plays that you see on Sunday every day that you get the opportunity to be out there.

A lot of planning goes into ensuring that every project becomes a super hit.

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams

The skill to do comes of doing.

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.

The three processes—people, strategy, and operations— remain the building blocks and heart of good execution.

When we asked Woolard about the most important lessons from his Apple experience, he reported that a board leader has to have regular access to the chief financial officer, deeply understand the company strategy and execution—and pick and partner with the right CEO.

Foulgrin's Rule Twenty-Three: tactics without strategy are useless.

Delay. Procrastinate. Postpone. This is our evangelism strategy.

knowing does not guarantee doing. Doing engages the will and a preset commitment.

Work. Don't Think. Relax.

As the Wonderful Counselor — He makes the plans. As the Mighty God —He makes the plans work.

The leader might be analyzed as the one who perceived what could be achieved and did it. p159

The main point to remember is once the subconscious mind accepts an idea, it begins to execute it. It is an interesting and subtle truth that the law of the subconscious mind works for good and bad ideas alike. This law, when applied in a negative way, is the cause of failure, frustration, and unhappiness. However, when your habitual thinking is harmonious and constructive, you experience perfect health, success, and prosperity.

No noose is good noose'—as the condemned man said on the scaffold.

you have to have a dream before you can execute it. That the people who succeed are the ones who think through what the next stages of their careers might be, and then work incredibly hard, day after day, to attain their goals. They don't just flop around like fish. They have a vision, and they work their asses off to make it a reality.

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

Something more is necessary, however, than merely to see the picture clearly. If that is all you do, you are only a dreamer, and will have little or no power for accomplishment.

Vision without execution is hallucination. .. Skill without imagination is barren. Leonardo [da Vinci] knew how to marry observation and imagination, which made him history's consummate innovator.

Yes, in the last war King had convinced Admiral Henry T. Mayo of the importance of delegating and then trusting his destroyer captains; he had preached the importance of individual training and career advancement so as to be fully capable of executing such instructions; but when push came to shove, King had always had a terrible time biting his own sharp tongue and trusting that his orders would be carried out.

The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

Aquellos que se obsesionan con el éxito y lo convierten en un valor, y además manejan esquemas rígidos de ejecución, viajan mal aunque quieran aparentar lo contrario. Quizá la felicidad no esté en ser el mejor vendedor, la mejor mamá, el mejor hijo o descollar en cualquier cosa, sino simplemente en intentarlo de manera honesta y tranquila, y disfrutarlo mientras se lleva a cabo.

Remember that you are an actor in a play of whatever kind the producer may choose. If a short one, short; if a long one, long. If he wants you to play a beggar, see that you act even this part naturally; or a cripple, or a ruler, or an ordinary citizen. Your task is to give a good performance of the part that you are assigned. To select the part belongs to someone else.

Games are won by players who focus on the playing field –- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.