Vision Execution Quotes

#1. What excites the media is that someone has a great idea or vision and makes millions as a result. The reality is that rarely happens. It is competency that unlocks a person's potential.
Tim Clark excerpt from DO! the pursuit of xceptional execution

Kevin Kelly

#2. Vision without execution is daydreaming.

Bill Gates

#3. Through the eyes of men an utterly irrational birth followed by a terribly improbable execution are miscues of the most pathetic sort. And all I can say is that I'm immeasurably thankful that I've been given access to the eyes of God.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#4. In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

Francis Bacon

#5. Vision, Uncertainty, and Knowledge of Materials are inevitabilities that all artists must acknowledge and learn from: vision is always ahead of execution, knowledge of materials is your contact with reality, and uncertainty is a virtue.

David Bayles

#6. Vision without execution is just hallucination.

Henry Ford

#7. Without freedom, the family and faith cannot survive. Without faith, we will see freedom and family languish. And without family, man will give up on a generational commitment to faith and freedom.

Kevin Swanson

#8. A vision without execution is an hallucination.

Jeffrey E. Garten

#9. Turn away from your animal kind, try to leave your body, just to live in your mind.

James Taylor

#10. All great art commences with a vision, and perhaps it may be that the vision is closer to God than that which is ultimately created by the artist's brush. There will always be human flaws in the execution. Only in the mind can the artist achieve true perfection.

John Connolly

#11. Perhaps some guest editors would keep Ethel and Julius Rosenberg in their peripheral vision. But Sylvia recognized their execution as the most extreme and gruesome example of McCarthy's red-baiting paranoia.

Elizabeth Winder

#12. Novell has the necessary resources to be a much more profitable enterprise but it currently lacks the vision, strategy and execution to produce respectable returns.

Maynard James Keenan

#13. I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution.

Steve Ballmer

#14. Having a vision for what you want is not enough ... Vision without execution is hallucination

Thomas A. Edison

#15. Truthfully, the hardest part about fashion is not the vision or one great idea, but the execution of each aspect.

Monika Chiang

#16. Vision is easy. Ideas are even easier. It's execution that separates the amateurs from the pros.

Blaine Hogan

#17. The more beautiful the vision, the more complicated the execution.

Andrew Zolli

#18. Even in an organization that's doing something big and bold, there's the mundane, day-to-day execution work of keeping it going. But people need to stay connected to the boldness, to the vision, and stay plugged in to the main vein of the dream.

Peter Diamandis

#19. Vision without execution is delusion.

Thomas A. Edison

#20. We believe this combination of excellence in operations and strong execution of our strategy is critical to achieve our vision. We will continue to focus on both in future as well.

Azim Premji

#21. Having just the vision's no solution, everything depends on execution

Stephen Sondheim

#22. Everything depends upon execution; having just a vision is no solution.

Stephen Sondheim

#23. Vision w/o execution is just hallucination. You need the right combination of visionary + team that can execute

Walter Isaacson

#24. Lesson for the day: vision is always ahead of execution - and it should be.

David Bayles

#25. The very sermon that we needlessly miss, may contain a precious word in season for our souls.

J.C. Ryle

#26. But no turbulent emotions passed through me as he spoke, only a diluted version of the nauseating sensation that had taken hold the day in Bombay that I learned my mother was dying, a sensation that had dropped anchor in me and never fully left.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#27. A vision and strategy aren't enough. The long-term key to success is execution. Each day. Every day.

Richard M. Kovacevich

#28. I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.

Giordano Bruno

#29. Musk's vision, and, of late, execution seem to combine the best of Henry Ford and John D. Rockefeller. With

Ashlee Vance

#30. Death is not a memory you can fake.

Jessica Brody

#31. Bit by bit, putting it together ...
Piece by piece, only way to make a work of art.
Every moment makes a contribution,
Every little detail plays a part.
Having just the vision's no solution,
Everything depends on execution,
Putting it together, that's what counts.

Stephen Sondheim