Peter Drucker
Management Consultant, Author
"Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art."
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Execution
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Bill Gates
Business Magnate, Philanthropist
"Vision without execution is daydreaming."
Antonin Scalia
Judge
"This is an execution, not surgery. Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the least pain?"
Thomas A. Edison
Inventor
"Vision without execution is delusion."
Leonardo da Vinci
Artist, Scientist, Inventor
"Learn diligence before speedy execution."
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"First feel sure of idea, then the execution will be easier."
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"Contrary to popular wisdom, knowledge is not power-it's potential power. Knowledge is not mastery. Execution is mastery. Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week."
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"Without execution, thinking is mere idleness."
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"Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy; forceful execution of even a poor plan can often bring victory."
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"To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions."
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"Genius is when an idea and the execution of that idea are simultaneous."
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"The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action."
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"Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity."
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"I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution."
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"Complexity is the enemy of execution!"
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"O my good lord, that comfort comes too late, 'Tis like a pardon after execution. That gentle physic, given in time, had cured me; But now I am past all comforts here but prayers."
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"In psychiatry there is a certain condition known as delusion of reprieve. The condemned man, immediately before his execution, gets the illusion that he might be reprieved at the very last minute. No one could yet grasp the fact that everything would be taken away. all we possessed, literally, was our naked existence."
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"Execution is the chariot of genius."
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"Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization; as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect."
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"Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas."
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"Ideas without execution are hallucinations."
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"Whether one showed you and execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and would still be content. That's the way to get on in life."
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"Sometimes poor behavior is simply bad execution of good intent."
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"Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power."
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"Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution."
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