Quotes & Sayings About Ideas And Execution

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

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

Ideas come from the mind, execution of those ideas come from the heart. — Giuseppe Bianco

One of my top tips for aspiring entrepreneurs: Tell everyone you know about your idea. This runs contrary to the instinct that most people have, because they're afraid someone is going to 'steal my ideal.' Ideas alone are worth very little; it's in the execution and market feedback that companies are made. — Aaron Patzer

Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters. — Casey Neistat

A good idea is worthless without impeccable execution and a commitment to iterate. — Zach Klein

First of all, ideas aren't the hard part. Secondly, there are no new ideas, only the author's unique execution. — Josh Lanyon

Success is rarely determined by the quality of your ideas. But it is frequently determined by the quality of your execution. — Jeff Atwood

JK Rowling combines the ideas and imagination of an entire Hollywood movie studio with the precise execution of an extremely efficient dictator. — Stephen Prosapio

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

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

Great execution is at least 10 times more important and a 100 times harder than a good idea ... — Sam Altman

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats. — Sue Grafton

Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything. — Scott Adams

managers in most companies are already overwhelmed with good ideas. Their challenge lies in prioritization and execution, — Eric Ries

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

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

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. — Sergey Brin

Innovation = Ideas + Execution + Adoption — Jag Randhawa

In the annals of innovation, new ideas are only part of the equation. Execution is just as important. — Walter Isaacson

If photos can reproduce the world more perfectly than any painter, can capture an instant, a look, a gesture, then what makes a painting good anymore? Painting subverts this subversion of its traditional nature by redefining itself - art is idea, not simply skillful execution. So, a work can be crudely made, or even machine made - but it has to be practically and functionally useless. — David Byrne

Many [business] people focus on what is static, black and white. Yet great algorithms can be rewritten. A business process can be defined better. A business model can be copied. But the speed of execution is dynamic within you and can never be copied. When you have an idea, figure out the pieces you need quickly, go to market, believe in it, and continue to iterate. — Gurbaksh Chahal

Foreign policy is about the execution of ideas as much as their formulation. — David Ignatius

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

Ideas are just a multiplier of execution. — Derek Sivers

There is nothing absurd or impracticable in the idea of a league or alliance between independent nations for certain defined purposes precisely stated in a treaty regulating all the details of time, place, circumstance, and quantity; leaving nothing to future discretion; and depending for its execution on the good faith of the parties. — Alexander Hamilton

There is no good government but what is republican. That the only valuable part of the British constitution is so; for the true idea of a republic is "an empire of laws, and not of men." That, as a republic is the best of governments, so that particular arrangement of the powers of society, or in other words, that form of government which is best contrived to secure an impartial and exact execution of the law, is the best of republics. — John Adams

Without execution, ideas are simply illusions. — Ben Tolosa

Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's execution that counts. — Frank Herbert

It's the execution that matters, never the idea. — Casey Neistat

Ideas are just gassy thoughts until execution materialize them. — Ben Tolosa

Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas. — William Blake

What will a Hillary Clinton presidency look like? The answer by now seems obvious: It will look like her presidential campaign, which in turn looks increasingly like the first Clinton presidency. Which is to say, high-minded ideals, lowered execution, half truths, outright lies (and imaginary flights), take-no prisoners politics, some very good policy ideas, a presidential spouse given to wallowing in anger and self-pity, and a succession of aides and surrogates pushed under the bus when things don't go right. Which is to say, often. — Carl Bernstein

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

Ideas without execution are hallucinations. — Thomas A. Edison

Vision is easy. Ideas are even easier. It's execution that separates the amateurs from the pros. — Blaine Hogan

First feel sure of idea, then the execution will be easier. — Eva Hesse

Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not. — Michael Dell

Color always vexed me because I would fight with the media I was using. I love coloring in Photoshop, and it's freed me to pursue ideas and techniques I wouldn't have otherwise attempted. Since I get to take an assignment from concept to final execution, I have more freedom in my idea-making processes. — Adam Hughes

Having ideas is not the same thing as being creative. Creation is execution, not inspiration. — Kevin Ashton

Practically, ideas are nothing without execution. — Ben Tolosa

Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them. The market rewards execution, not ideas. — Scott Adams

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

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

There's no shortage of great ideas. There's a shortage of execution. — Seth Godin

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

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

I saw a man walk into my camera viewfinder from the left. He took a pistol out of his holster and raised it. I had no idea he would shoot. It was common to hold a pistol to the head of prisoners during questioning. So I prepared to make that picture - the threat, the interrogation. But it didn't happen. The man just pulled a pistol out of his holster, raised it to the VC's head and shot him in the temple. I made a picture at the same time. (On his 1968 photograph of the summary street corner execution of prisoner Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnam's police chief, Lt. Col. Nguyen Ngoc Loan.) — Eddie Adams

I think animation is a very truthful way to express your thoughts, because the process is very direct. That's what I've always liked about animation, particularly abstract animation. You go from the idea to execution, straight from your brain. It's like when you hear someone playing an instrument, and you feel the direct connection between the instrument and his brain, because the instrument becomes an extension of his arms and fingers. It's like a scanner of the brain and thought process that you can watch, or hear. — Michel Gondry

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

Done is better than none. You could have all the ideas in the world, but without execution, you will go nowhere. — Sue B. Zimmerman

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

But, like many ideas, that one was more appealing in concept than in execution — Diana Gabaldon

To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions. — Steve Jobs

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

One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion. — Tim Ferriss

Genius is when an idea and the execution of that idea are simultaneous. — Albert Einstein

Great execution towards a terrible idea will get you nowhere. — Sam Altman

Companies over-emphasize idea generation and under-emphasize idea execution when it comes to innovation. — Vijay Govindarajan

Ideas are only as good as their execution — Tulsi Tanti

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

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

Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution. — Sol LeWitt

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

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

Ideas are easy. Execution is everything. It takes a team to win. — John Doerr