William H. Seward Quotes

It is easy to say that something should be done. However to say what, when and how is more difficult.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

Vision without execution is delusion.

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

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

The times demand not a man bearing promises of new things, but a man who can finish the things begun...

You can't just set the vision, take a nap, and not keep working on making your vision happen. Your intention has to be backed by work.

I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy.

The how will show up after the commitment to the what.

I'm certainly hoping that all the recommendations that we have heard will be implemented.

In the military, as in any organization, giving the order might be the easiest part. Execution is the real game.

Execution is everything.

Once you articulate an agenda, you have to follow it.

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.

I have zero tolerance for people who don't come completely prepared. I expect contribution, I expect attendance, and I expect directors to take trips and visit the company's programs.

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

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

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

Great leaders state out loud what they intend to do and in doing so, they get things done.

A good policy badly executed becomes a bad policy.

Providing the vision is easy. Getting policy right is hard. The hard thing about the modern world is doing it. The world is changing so fast.

It's deeds we need, not words.

Governing is about selecting.

It is interesting to see all you fellows here. It will even be more interesting to see how many of you will be here a few months from now.