Top 56 Ideas Execution Quotes
#2. My gift is execution; when I decide I'm going to do something, I'll stop at nothing to do it. Along the way, you take a lot of risks and go for it, but you have to believe in it. You gotta believe in your idea, and lucky for me, I found a lot of success in that.
Rob Dyrdek
#3. Ideas come from the mind, execution of those ideas come from the heart.
Giuseppe Bianco
#4. Vision is easy. Ideas are even easier. It's execution that separates the amateurs from the pros.
Blaine Hogan
#5. In the annals of innovation, new ideas are only part of the equation. Execution is just as important.
Walter Isaacson
#6. Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters.
Casey Neistat
#7. Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.
Michael Dell
#8. It's the execution that matters, never the idea.
Casey Neistat
#9. Without execution, ideas are simply illusions.
Ben Tolosa
#10. Strategy equals execution. All the great ideas and visions in the world are worthless if they can't be implemented rapidly and efficiently. Good leaders delegate and empower others liberally, but they pay attention to details, every day.
Colin Powell
#11. A good idea is worthless without impeccable execution and a commitment to iterate.
Zach Klein
#12. What makes success is not your genius idea, but the execution and follow-through around it
Robin Sharma
#13. Ideas are 10 a penny. It's the execution that's the hard thing to do. House is standing up against a tide of sentiment and emotionalism over reason that threatens to engulf this world. When you think about it, a rationalist, a man of science and reason, is in a pretty lonely position.
Hugh Laurie
#14. Having ideas is not the same thing as being creative. Creation is execution, not inspiration.
Kevin Ashton
#15. Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything.
Scott Adams
#16. First of all, ideas aren't the hard part. Secondly, there are no new ideas, only the author's unique execution.
Josh Lanyon
#17. Companies over-emphasize idea generation and under-emphasize idea execution when it comes to innovation.
Vijay Govindarajan
#18. Practically, ideas are nothing without execution.
Ben Tolosa
#19. Most of the pilots I choose do not have high-concept ideas, so for me it's not the idea as much as the execution of the idea, and if the idea, like you take a bar in Boston, that's not a high-concept idea. But if it's executed well, it makes a great show.
James Burrows
#20. Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's execution that counts.
Frank Herbert
#21. The last thing a chef wants in a line cook is an innovator, somebody with ideas of his own who is going to mess around with the chef's recipes and presentations. Chefs require blind, near-fanatical loyalty, a strong back and an automaton-like consistency of execution under battlefield conditions.
Anthony Bourdain
#22. Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas.
William Blake
#23. First feel sure of idea, then the execution will be easier.
Eva Hesse
#24. Execution is everything. Even if you start a business with the wrong idea or too many competitors, you can out-execute all the better ideas in the right market.
Robert Jordan
#25. Ideas are just gassy thoughts until execution materialize them.
Ben Tolosa
#26. Genius is when an idea and the execution of that idea are simultaneous.
Albert Einstein
#27. Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.
Sue Grafton
#28. Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important.
George R R Martin
#29. Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.
Felix Dennis
#30. But, like many ideas, that one was more appealing in concept than in execution
Diana Gabaldon
#31. In America, when you bring an idea to market, you usually have several months before competition pops up, allowing you to capture significant market share. In China, you can have hundreds of competitors within the first hours of going live. Ideas are not important in China - execution is.
Ma Huateng
#32. I don't try to overintellectua lize my concepts of people. In fact, the ideas I have, if you talk about them, they seem extremely corny and it's only in their execution that people can enjoy them ... It's something I've learned to trust: The stupider it is, the better it looks.
Annie Leibovitz
#33. One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.
Tim Ferriss
#35. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.
Sol LeWitt
#36. Content may by trivial. But I do not think that any person may pronounce either upon the weight or upon the triviality of an idea before its execution.
Ben Shahn
#37. Ideas are easy. Execution is everything. It takes a team to win.
John Doerr
#38. Great execution is at least 10 times more important and a 100 times harder than a good idea ...
Sam Altman
#39. JK Rowling combines the ideas and imagination of an entire Hollywood movie studio with the precise execution of an extremely efficient dictator.
Stephen Prosapio
#40. The most brilliant idea, with no execution, is worth $20. The most brilliant idea takes great execution to be worth $20,000,000.
Derek Sivers
#41. Ideas are only as good as their execution
Tulsi Tanti
#42. managers in most companies are already overwhelmed with good ideas. Their challenge lies in prioritization and execution,
Eric Ries
#43. Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them. The market rewards execution, not ideas.
Scott Adams
#44. My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
Thomas Hardy
#45. Foreign policy is about the execution of ideas as much as their formulation.
David Ignatius
#46. Great execution towards a terrible idea will get you nowhere.
Sam Altman
#48. I watch TV more than I used to, and the commercials don't impress me. The standard of execution is very high, but the standard of ideas is appalling.
Paul Arden
#49. This solo piano exploration (Beyond The Sky) by Rob Schwimmer is full of passion and love ... his execution and ideas flow with a beautiful sense of freedom that captures you from his first phrase to the last.
Joe Lovano
#50. Success is rarely determined by the quality of your ideas. But it is frequently determined by the quality of your execution.
Jeff Atwood
#51. Done is better than none. You could have all the ideas in the world, but without execution, you will go nowhere.
Sue B. Zimmerman
#52. If you can get out in front of people with your ideas and your execution, you'll attract the people who need to be pulled in.
Thomas P.M. Barnett
#53. Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution.
Sol LeWitt
#54. There's no shortage of great ideas. There's a shortage of execution.
Seth Godin
#55. To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.
Steve Jobs
#56. I'm not the first person to have said this - no writer ever feels that the execution of a book lives up to the idea for that book. The execution always falls short.
Stephen King
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