Bill Gates Quotes

Vision without execution is hallucination.

Execution without a long term strategy leads nowhere. Likewise a long term strategy without execution leads nowhere.

He who fails to plan, plans to fail.

It's the right idea, but not the right time.

I'm fascinated with films that deal with strategy because there's a right way and a wrong way to get the job done.

The game is a game, and things happen, and you can't always execute your plan as perfectly as you'd like to.

Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

This man will never finish anything. He thinks about the end before he thinks about the beginning.

The 6 Ps: Proper Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Performance

Vision without execution is delusion.

Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.

The key to our business, it's a lot of research.

You can put in all the plays in the world, but if a guy is not executing it's not going to work.

I want to control everything that goes into winning or losing.

I probably made a mistake at Florida trying to change schematically from what they had done before. As a result, we ended up not being very good at anything.

If they don't execute well enough then there's nothing much a coach can do. But if they do execute those plans correctly and they don't work, then you need to be able to adapt and come up with something different.

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

Build and they will come’ is not a strategy, it’s a prayer.

A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.

Lack of planning is the cause of most failures.

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

I am aware that success is more than a good idea. It is timing too.

In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.