Louis V. Gerstner Jr. Quotes

Ideas are cheap. The difficult part is finding the team to execute them.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

Vision without execution is delusion.

It's important to have a sound idea, but the really important thing is the implementation.

Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.

Our visions are the plans of the possible life structure, but they will end in plans if we do not follow them up with a vigorous effort to make them real, just as the architect's plans will end in his drawings if they are not followed up and made real by the builder.

A great idea is not enough.

Success isn't something you achieve by accident, but rather by design.

We made certain that there were decent transitional arrangements to get us to where we wanted to go. The same principle will have to apply here or we won't get there.

I felt a sense of fulfillment that an action plan, which I'd laid on the table on the 2nd of February 1990, had been fulfilled, had been properly implemented within the time frame which I envisaged.

In every aspect of life, have a game plan, and then do your best to achieve it.

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

My view is that, as management, the focus has to be on having a strategy and executing it. As you do the strategy and execution, it is important to communicate it consistently.

There's a big difference between saying you are for something and saying how you're going to achieve it.

Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised.

Leaders tend to focus on 'what to do,' but the real issue is more often 'how to do it.'

I had ideas. A lot were good, but in many ways, I had no idea or experience about how to carry them out.

It's one thing to be able to analyze something. It's another to implement it or execute on a vision or even to get a whole bunch of people to rally behind it.

As a mayor, my instinct is to really think about how to get something done and not to make the promise unless you have some view of the pathway. You don't have to have it all figured out, but you have to have a pathway there.

Potential is just potential until you can pull it off, and you need to show up ready to exercise the plan in mind. I've always come from that place in everything I've ever done.

Formulate a specific game plan... the specific steps in making your intention come to life.

Hope is not strategy. Hope fits with vision, but we must have a strategy and a process to make our vision become a reality.

Having just the vision's no solution, everything depends on execution

It is one thing to conceive a good plan, and another to execute it

The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method.