Ideas Vs Execution Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ideas are only as good as their execution — Tulsi Tanti

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Practically, ideas are nothing without execution. — Ben Tolosa

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

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