decision execution Quotes

When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or not. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.

Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.

As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.

It's one thing to make a choice. It's another to put that choice into practice.

Life is about choices, and the grace - or lack thereof - with which you execute them is a make-or-break moment in anyone's life.

I say, make the decision, and as soon as you make the decision, the rest of your life you just manage that decision on a daily basis.

If everybody trusts one another, then the person who didn't prevail will faithfully execute the decision as if it was their idea.

You cannot manage a decision you haven't made.

When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

Successful people make right decisions early and manage those decisions daily.

Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention.

It is not always what we know or analyzed before we make a decision that makes it a great decision. It is what we do after we make the decision to implement and execute it that makes it a good decision.

The mistake that the Bush administration should admit to is not so much that they made the wrong choices. They made the right analysis; they made the right choices. But what they did wrong was the execution of those choices. That was wrong.