Harvey Mackay Quotes

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who execute them are not.

Genius is in the idea. Impact, however, comes from action!

A brilliant idea without action is like Mark McGwire playing baseball without a bat.

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.

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

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

If you don't execute your ideas, they die.

The world is full of people who say, 'But I had that idea first,' but did they do anything about it? Nope, they sat on their bum dreaming.

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.

My whole philosophy is about doing, not talking.

Ideas are useless unless used.

Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.

It's better to do it than to talk about how perfect it could be.

You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results and no reward.

They spent days, nights, weeks, and years talking, never accepting the fact that, good or bad, an idea only exists when someone tries to put it into practice.

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.

Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything.

It's the execution that matters, never the idea.

An idea is worthless unless you use it.

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

No, everyone has great ideas, but what makes a difference, especially online, or just in life, is actually doing it; getting that first version out there.

It's surprising how many people get bogged down in analysing, planning, and organizing when what they really need to do is take action.