Quotes About Execution

The Five Whys ties the rate of progress to learning, not just execution. Startup teams should go through the Five Whys whenever they encounter any kind of failure, including technical faults, failures to achieve business results, or unexpected changes in customer behavior.

This is true startup productivity: systematically figuring out the right things to build.

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

Entrepreneurship is management

Until we could figure out how to sell and make the product, it wasn't worth spending any engineering time on.

Unfortunately, too many startup business plans look more like they are planning to launch a rocket ship than drive a car.

This is a classic case of "achieving failure"—successfully executing a flawed plan.

managers in most companies are already overwhelmed with good ideas. Their challenge lies in prioritization and execution,

To open up a new business that is an exact clone of an existing business all the way down to the business model, pricing, target customer, and product may be an attractive economic investment, but it is not a startup because its success depends only on execution—so much so that this success can be modeled with high accuracy.

Unfortunately, "learning" is the oldest excuse in the book for a failure of execution. It's what managers fall back on when they fail to achieve the results we promised.

A platform pivot refers to a change from an application to a platform or vice versa. Most commonly, startups that aspire to create a new platform begin life by selling a single application, the so-called killer app, for their platform. Only later does the platform emerge as a vehicle for third parties to leverage as a way to create their own related products. However, this order is not always set in stone, and some companies have to execute this pivot multiple times.

It is the principal antidote to the lethal problem of achieving failure: successfully executing a plan that leads nowhere.

Es gibt nichts Gutes, außer man tut es. (Actions speak louder than words.)

next shot is eighty percent of winning golf..

Signing off on the daily execution lists, Stalin was heard to remark: "Who is going to remember this riffraff in ten, twenty years' time? No one.

As Hank moved from one issue to another, pressing for solutions or more analysis, I could see why he had been an effective CEO.

Now the time had come to put my ideas into practice.

Talkers never acted when they could talk.

Speak little, do much.

The cat in gloves catches no mice.

I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, makes the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.

I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he forms a good plan, and then makes the execution of that plan his sole study and business.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forc'd by the occasion.

he was sensible and sagacious in himself, and attentive to good advice from others, capable of forming judicious plans, and quick and active in carrying them into execution.