Jeff Rich Quotes

Vision without execution is hallucination.

Without execution, 'vision' is just another word for hallucination.

Vision without execution is delusion.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

A goal without a plan is only a dream.

I learned how to order my thoughts, and most important, learned how to develop a plan. I discovered the power of a plan. If you can plan it out, and it seems logical to you, you can do it. And that was the secret to success.

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.

Once you articulate an agenda, you have to follow it.

I'm very much a creative person, but you've got to do the follow-through. A lot of people start out with an exciting thing and they want to take over the world, but really the people who do take over the world have a good plan of how to get there and the steps along the way.

A plan is always successful if the plan is good.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

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

As a mayor, my instinct is to really think about how to get something done and not to make the promise unless you have some view of the pathway. You don't have to have it all figured out, but you have to have a pathway there.

A goal without a plan is a wish. What's your plan? It's on you, because you have to do all the work.

A plan is a bridge to your dreams. Your job is to make the plan or bridge real, so that your dreams will become real. If all you do is stand on the side of the bank and dream of the other side, your dreams will forever be just dreams.

Personal excellence can be achieved by a visionary goal, through planning, dedicated execution, and total follow-through.

Hope is not strategy. Hope fits with vision, but we must have a strategy and a process to make our vision become a reality.

Clarity precedes mastery. Craft clear and precise plans/goals/deliverables. And then block out all else.

Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know how to read, but more importantly, what's your plan to read?

When you stop planning and preparing . . . you stop winning.

Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.

A goal without a plan is a wish.

I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient condition for making it come true.

I don't really do without any plans. If somebody is trying to do something, you must have plans.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.