William Feather Quotes

There's at least a hundred times more people with great ideas than people that are willing to put in the effort to execute them well.

Good ideas are common - what's uncommon are people who will work hard enough to bring them about.

When you come up with a good idea, you don't have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.

The best ideas are useless unless carried out.

The proof is in the results, and the proof will be in the ongoing ability to execute.

Now, ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea itself is worth nothing. An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything. The men who have won fame and fortune through having an idea are those who devoted every ounce of their strength and every dollar they could muster to putting it into operation. Ford had a big idea, but he had to sweat and suffer and sacrifice to make it work.

Ideas are just a multiplier of execution.

I'm always busy. You know, the more I do, the more ideas I have—that's the funny thing. The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body builder.

Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

All your ideas may be solid or even good .. But you have to Actually EXECUTE on them for them to matter.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless.

The profile of a wealthy person is this hard work, perseverance, and most of all, self-discipline.

When you've done all you can, do just a little bit more. Any extra effort you make will draw immense leverage from all the ordinary efforts which have preceded it. That can be powerful and effective.

It all starts with a great idea and teamwork.

Of course, you don't have to have a degree to be rich. You just have to have ideas. Maybe having a degree sets you back, for it stuffs you into tick-tock [the daily grind of work], and perhaps that stifles your creative mind. But the fact is that many millionaires have few educational qualifications of any kind at all. However, they still have knowledge. The difference is, they have knowledge they can sell, and others have the "common knowledge" of tick-tock, which isn't worth as much, if anything at all.

Having ideas and doing them - that's what entrepreneurship comes down to. That's something that makes you not just a great founder who I want to invest in, but also a great employee or someone I want to work with.

Ideas without action are worthless.

People seem to think that they can't come up with ideas, and they're wrong. They can and they do, but they just think of it as daydreaming, or wasting time. Kids get told not to make things up, and in my case, nobody told me long enough, or it just didn't stick.

The point of a notebook is to jumpstart the mind.

Without the doing, the dreaming is useless.

A team of giants needs giant pitchers who throw good ideas but every pitcher needs an outstanding catcher. Without giant catchers, the ideas of the giant pitchers may eventually disappear.

Great execution towards a terrible idea will get you nowhere.

To it, more than to anything else, I owe whatever success I have had - to this power of settling down to the day's work and trying to do it to the best of one's ability, and letting the future take care of itself.

Energy plus talent and you are a king, energy and no talent and you are still a prince, talent and no energy and you are a pauper

Don't stop. Narrow your focus to one idea, and make it work. That will give birth to all of the others. All you can do is plant the seed and water it.