16 quotes
I don’t really like talking. I like to execute. I’m not a talking person. I’m an action person.
Kevin GatesIt is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.
John RuskinObama has no way to conceal that Osama was executed in front of his children and wives, who are now under the custody of the authorities of Pakistan, a Muslim country of almost 200 million inhabitants, whose laws have been violated, its national dignity offended, and its religious traditions desecrated.
Fidel CastroWhere is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
Khalil GibranA good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
George S. PattonDon’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.
Jocko WillinkWant balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.
Stephen CoveyYoung people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
Francis BaconA really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheEnthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
Henry FordDo not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
ChanakyaNo enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
Niccolo MachiavelliMost of the stuff I try in a game, in the moment, I have supreme confidence I’m going to execute it.
Stephen CurryI expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.
Huey NewtonWar should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.
Niccolo MachiavelliThose who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Benjamin Franklin