Execution Challenges Quotes

This is a business that is much easier planned than executed.

Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details.

It's the disease of thinking that a having a great idea is really 90% of the work. And if you just tell people, 'here's this great idea,' then of course they can go off and make it happen. The problem with that is that there's a tremendous amount of craftsmanship between a having a great idea and having a great product.

Redesigning a strategy is an excellent way to avoid implementing the strategy.

Research: the distance between an idea and its realization.

An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.

The problem was, and we saw some of this in the immigration-reform issues as well, was they hadn't done sufficient homework to know that I didn't have all the capacity they thought I did in order to just execute this through the stroke of a pen.

People laugh at my analogy in most cases - I go, 'Yeah, everything looks awesome on paper until you stick six guys in a submarine and go, 'Okay, go out and conquer America.''

It's fairly common knowledge that a startup can't execute on two products simultaneously.

Truthfully, the hardest part about fashion is not the vision or one great idea, but the execution of each aspect.

A lot of things look good on an academic's blackboard in terms of the actions that need to be taken. It's almost like a football coach, when you draw the X's and O's: Every play that is chalked on that board goes for a touchdown. Well, there are a lot of yards to be made between the line of scrimmage and the touchdown.

In my private sector career, two of my favorite sayings were, 'Strategy is easy and execution is really hard,' and that we should 'run at criticism.'

Static puppets, I wanted them to move, they're looking out the windows, but we didn't have time to rig those. I have more ideas than I can execute also every time that I do anything. I put the puppets in because people love 'em. I'm a populist in that sense.

Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it.

Briony began to understand the chasm that lay between an idea and its execution.