Execution Failure Quotes

Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult. The difficulties accumulate and end by producing a kind of friction that is inconceivable unless one has experienced war. ... Countless minor incidents - the kind you can never really foresee - combine to lower the general level of performance, so that one always falls short of the intended goal.

The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.

Remember that you are more likely to die because you execute badly than get crushed by a competitor.

In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.

A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.

Plans can be like a winged horse, but their execution plods along pulling carts.

The best ideas are useless unless carried out.

The weakness in the company is if we fail to execute.

I've been in games where execution hasn't gone like you want it. The key is you remain confident because you know who you are.

You need to learn what people have done, but you need to learn where they have failed... Usually when they fail it is in the execution.

You have to convince your players that the only reason a play failed was that they didn't execute properly.

And while I was not an admirer of people in the specific, I liked them in the abstract. It is only the execution of the idea that disappoints.

Of course it looks bad when you're not executing. When things go bad, it's not going to look good.

I know very well what I am about and that my skies have not been neglected, though they often failed in execution - and often no doubt from over anxiety about them.

Processes break in two ways. They break because they don't have the right checks and balances and because they don't have the right execution.

A strategy that doesn't take into account resources is doomed to failure.

Today was about execution, period. Every single player, all of us in the dressing room right now, we’re embarrassed because that’s not the way we want to play soccer.

If you look at the Internet, the vast majority of start-ups are not successful. But the ones that are, are very very successful. So you can't point to the unsuccessful ones and say, 'There's no hope for this field.' It's just that they had the wrong idea or they had bad execution.

I always love that phrase, 'Oh, this is a good idea, but it's execution dependent.' As if anything in life is not execution dependent. Breathing is execution-dependent.

The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance

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.

I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.