William Feather Quotes

Ideas do not count for much unless they change the lives of men.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

A lot of the ideas for solving many of our problems are already in place, but ideas don’t travel.

Ideas are useless unless used.

An idea is worthless unless you use it.

The value of a good idea is in using it.

We are always looking for a grand program of action full of great ideas, when the thing is to begin by obeying the little ideas.

What is often lacking is not creativity in the idea-creating sense but innovation in the action-producing sense, i.e. putting ideas to work.

Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action.

Vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.

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

Usage is like oxygen for ideas.

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

Strategy equals execution. All the great ideas and visions in the world are worthless if they can't be implemented rapidly and efficiently. Good leaders delegate and empower others liberally, but they pay attention to details, every day.

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

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.

It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it.

People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject it because it doesn't fit with what they already know.

Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important.

Immediate work, even poor, is worth more than dreams.

Ideas by themselves are not worth anything, only executing well is what creates value.

People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer after layer of old earth; it's no wonder the poor things so rarely come up fresh and green.

There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, Is it good in itself? In the second, Can it be easily put into practice?

Ideas without action are worthless.

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