Wesley Clark Quotes

Plans get you into things, but you got to work your way out.

Never has there been a map, however carefully executed to detail and scale, which has carried its owner over even one inch of ground. Never has there been a parchment of law, however fair, which prevented one crime. Never has there been a scroll, even such as the one I hold, which so much as a penny or produced a single word of acclamation. Action, alone, is the tinder which ignites the map, the parchment, this scroll, my plans, my goals, into a living force. Action is the food and drink which will nourish my success. I will act now.

A great idea is not enough.

I know what to do and I go and execute.

Vision without execution is delusion.

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.

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

big plans require big action

In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.

Execution gets divided into two key questions: 1) can you figure out what to do and 2) can you get it done.

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

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.

It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.

A plan is always successful if the plan is good.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

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

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

Here is an old Oriental proverb: *A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.* It is difficult to anticipate just how a situation will develop in every detail until you take a step forward and try out your present equipment. Then, if weaknesses appear, you will have clues as to how to strengthen your resources. No scheme or plan is perfect. Perfection is a process, not an end.

We just have to go after our game plan.

Ideas are just a multiplier of execution.

A goal without a plan is only a dream.

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

Everything depends upon execution; having just a vision is no solution.

What makes success is not your genius idea, but the execution and follow-through around it