#Execution Quotes

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

“Never make a promise without a plan.”

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

“Knowing is not enough! You must take action.”

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

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

“A vision, without a plan, is just a hallucination.”

“Success leaves clues, but they must be acted upon.”

“Complexity is the enemy of execution!”

“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.”

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

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

“Winners take imperfect action while losers are still perfecting the plan.”

“Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week.”

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

“Information without execution is poverty.”

“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.”

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

“Knowledge is potential; action is power.”

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”

“Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.”

“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.”

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

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

“Focus on execution rather than just the idea.”

“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.”

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

“The value of a good idea is in using it.”

“My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.”

“An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.”

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

“Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination”

“The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it.”

“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.”

“Vision without execution is delusion.”

“Ideas without execution are hallucinations.”

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

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

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

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

“It's the disease of thinking that a having a great idea is really 90% of the work. And if you just tell people, 'here's this great idea,' then of course they can go off and make it happen. The problem with that is that there's a tremendous amount of craftsmanship between a having a great idea and having a great product.”

“Plans are worthless, but planning is invaluable.”

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

“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.”

“It does not follow from the separation of planning and doing in the analysis of work that the planner and the doer should be two different people. It does not follow that the industrial world should be divided into two classes of people: a few who decide what is to be done, design the job, set the pace, rhythm and motions, and order others about; and the many who do what and as they are told.”

“Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action.”

“All good strategy eventually degenerates into work.”

“The best plan is only a plan... unless it degerates into work.”

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

“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.”