Quotes About Execution

In the old days, would-be conquerors often executed messengers who brought them bad news. It was not the messengers' fault that they had to disturb the emperor's image of himself as a world conqueror, but unfortunately they did, and they suffered the consequence of the anxiety they aroused. It is still worth a man's neck to disturb an emperor's image. Nowadays the ax falls more subtly and the execution may be postponed, but sooner or later it comes.

The behavior of running code is unambiguous.

Every work of art falls short of what the artist envisioned. It is precisely that gap between their intention and their execution that opens up the door for the next work.

When you pass zero to setTimeout, you're asking JavaScript to run your timeout handler as soon as it possibly can — and this leads to your handler running as frequently as it possibly can.

JavaScript creates all local variables at the beginning of a function whether you declare them or not (this is called "hoisting" and we'll come back to it later), but the variables are all undefined until they are assigned a value, which might not be what you want.

the truth is JavaScript actually makes two passes over your page: in the first pass it reads all the function definitions, and in the second it begins executing your code. So

A function without a return statement returns undefined.

an important thing to know about JavaScript: there's one queue and one "thread of control," meaning there is only one of me going through the events one at a time.

An object named arguments is available in every function when that function is called. You

Britain continued to use the terms and the symbols of its religion and would never make a vulgar Gallic show of executing clerics, but it would reject real religion nonetheless.

Reading is good, action is better.

Think big. Start small. Scale fast.

achieving failure: successfully executing a plan that leads nowhere.

learning" is the oldest excuse in the book for a failure of execution.

If a competitor can outexecute a startup once the idea is known, the startup is doomed anyway. The reason to build a new team to pursue an idea is that you believe you can accelerate through the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop faster than anyone else can.

They had "achieved failure"—successfully, faithfully, and rigorously executing a plan that turned out to have been utterly flawed.

Si yo eligiera un empleado al azar de cualquier nivel, departamento o región, y ese empleado tuviera una idea absolutamente brillante que abriera una fuente de crecimiento radicalmente nueva, ¿qué tendría que hacer para llevar su idea a la práctica? ¿Dispone la empresa de las herramientas de gestión necesarias para ampliar esa idea a fin de que genere el máximo impacto, aun cuando no se ajuste a ninguna de las líneas de negocio actuales?

too many startup business plans look more like they are planning to launch a rocket ship than drive a car. They prescribe the steps to take and the results to expect in excruciating detail, and as in planning to launch a rocket, they are set up in such a way that even tiny errors in assumptions can lead to catastrophic outcomes.

achieving failure"—successfully executing a flawed plan.

in general management, a failure to deliver results is due to either a failure to plan adequately or a failure to execute properly. Both are significant lapses, yet new product development in our modern economy routinely requires exactly this kind of failure on the way to greatness.

Startup success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught.

Entrepreneurship is a kind of management.

Every business plan begins with a set of assumptions.

Once a team is set up, what should it do? What process should it use? How should it be held accountable to performance milestones?