Quotes about Execution

Those two priceless abilities: first, the ability to think. Second, the ability to do things in the order of their importance.

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.

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

That is the way I have always worked. I draw a plan and work out every detail on the plan before starting to build. For otherwise one will waste a great deal of time in makeshifts as the work goes on and the finished article will not have coherence. It

Until you actually start making something, your brilliant idea is just that, an idea.

He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing; but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves to undertake another.

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

Implementation beats oration.

If there's a runner on third with less than two outs, I clearly do not want to strike out.

Remember that it is not the lawyer who knows the most law, but the one who best prepares his case, who wins. If your case is properly prepared and presented, your victory will have been more than half won at the outset.

Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

If faith without works is dead, willingness without action is fantasy.