Quotes about Execution

Disgust at collective killing is of very recent date and should not be over-estimated. Today everyone takes part in public executions through the newspapers. Like everything else, however, it is more comfortable than it was. We sit peacefully at home and, out of a hundred details, can choose those to linger over which offer a special thrill. We only applaud when everything is over and there is no feeling of guilty connivance to spoil our pleasure.

What people think and believe and plan are all very important, but what they do is the thing that counts most.

It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

When I give talks like the one I'm going to give at the Changing Advertising Summit, one of the points I often make to the audience is that I'm not one of those speakers who stands in front of the audience and pontificates - everything I talk about I'm actually doing myself. I'm living it.

Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons: we act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting.

Without execution, thinking is mere idleness.

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

A knowledge of and the ability to properly and quickly execute the fundamentals. Be prepared and cover every little detail.

The test of our knowledge is not what we know, but what we can do.

What you do has far greater impact than what you say.

Leadership is not only having a vision, but also having the courage, the discipline, and the resources to get you there.