Successful Execution Quotes

You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.

As long as we continue to execute, everything will work out for everybody at GoPro.

What could be said about 'Party Down?' So many things. It was such a good idea - a different party every week is such a slam-dunk of an idea that I couldn't believe it had not been done yet. The creators of it are my friends.

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

You must have a clear mental picture of the correct thing before you can do it successfully.

If you're going to win games, you're going to have to come up with the big hits. That's the bottom line.

It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful.

I had a history for starting something and maybe getting halfway done. Then I'd see the same thing I was doing on the bestseller list! My ideas were right, but I hadn't done them fast enough.

In the NBA, you're taking a bunch of different talents, and you're managing them. You have to give them a system; you have to give them a belief. That's why coaches like Phil Jackson and Gregg Popovich are so great: because they gave the team confidence in the system and in their ability to execute night in and night out.

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

An old trick well done is far better than a new trick with no effect.

Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.

All success is, really, is having a predetermined plan and carrying it out successfully over a long period of time.

I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.

Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.

I had elements that were much more than what Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates had. If I work according to their methods, what will I create? All of this was in my head when I was young.

Ideas by themselves are not worth anything, only executing well is what creates value.

Jeff Kwatinetz and Ice Cube and Amy Trask - all those people are real visionaries, and the league that they started has been phenomenal. And my job as commissioner now is to kind of help continue to build, improve the fan and the player experience.

Even the thunderous master-blasters, like Andre Russell and MS Dhoni, men who now make scoring more than 20 runs per over look simple, often thrive on the right side of an incredibly slender gap between six and out. They are not more lucky than anyone else. They are more brilliant.

Travis Kalanick was and is the perfect person to lead Uber, a product I knew from day one was going to be big.

It's important not to overstate the benefits of ideas. Quite frankly, I know it's kind of a romantic notion that you're just going to have this one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great. But the fact is that coming up with an idea is the least important part of creating something great. It has to be the right idea and have good taste, but the execution and delivery are what's key.

If you want to win games in this league, you have to be efficient.

The man who puts life into an idea is acclaimed a genius, because he does the right thing at the right time. Therein lies the difference between the genius and a commonplace man.

Whatever sport you're looking at, it's usually the team that makes the least mistakes that has the most success.

My mindset in all three formats, in any situation, is exactly the same. I just want to get myself in, get myself a nice foundation to hopefully attack and dominate the bowlers.