Execution Quotes

Diligent follow-up and follow-through will set you apart from the crowd and communicate excellence.

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

What good is inspiration if it's not backed up by action?

You must find a way to get your vision seen, implemented, and contributed to by others.

While the worriers are worrying, the planners are planning and the accountants are figuring out why we can't afford it, I'm busy getting started.

The best way to get trained is to get mentored - live or by reading or watching videos by masters. That way, you start executing based on lessons from the best.

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it is another matter.

KNOWLEDGE is only Power to the Extent that it is... U S E D

Never make a promise without a plan.

It's not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Don't let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Good intentions are useless until they are expressed in appropriate action!

The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand.

Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week.

To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.

An idea is something that won't work unless you do.

It's not what you can do, but the way you do it that counts.

The best game plan in the world never blocked or tackled anybody.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Leadership is more doing than dash.

Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual. They fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned that insights become effectiveness only through hard systematic work.

Don’t tell them what you’re going to do - that’s vision. Do what you are going to do – that’s culture.

Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.

Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

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

I dream of men who take the next step instead of worrying about the next thousand steps.

You need to learn what people have done, but you need to learn where they have failed... Usually when they fail it is in the execution.

The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars.

Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention.

Success leaves clues, but they must be acted upon.

All good strategy eventually degenerates into work.

The whole idea of motivation is a trap, forget motivation, just do it

No decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone's work assignment and responsibility.

I am aware of the talent I was gifted and had to execute against it. It is just being very self aware and betting on your best strength.

Vision without execution is daydreaming.

There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.

Contrary to popular wisdom, knowledge is not power-it's potential power. Knowledge is not mastery. Execution is mastery. Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week.

There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Strategy equals execution. All the great ideas and visions in the world are worthless if they can't be implemented rapidly and efficiently. Good leaders delegate and empower others liberally, but they pay attention to details, every day.

Ideas without execution are hallucinations.

If everybody trusts one another, then the person who didn't prevail will faithfully execute the decision as if it was their idea.

Don't ever be impressed with goal setting. Be impressed with goal getting.

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

I don't want them to kill no hog . . . . I want a man to go to that chair, on his own two feet.

Every year I make a plan. I do it. It will be done.

Plan you work and work your plan.

In the army we are drilled into execution and then supervision, to make sure everything goes the way you planned it. But there is another thing that we do in the military, that I think perhaps isn't done enough in corporate life: As soon as you have made that decision, you start on the contingency planning. Because there is, as we like to say, a thinking, breathing enemy out there, who is not going to let you do just what you want.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.

It's one thing to make a choice. It's another to put that choice into practice.

Learn diligence before speedy execution.

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.