Publilius Syrus Quotes

This is a business that is much easier planned than executed.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

One man of tolerable Abilities may work great Changes, and accomplish great Affairs among Mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and … makes the execution of that same plan his sole Study and Business.

Vision without execution is delusion.

Time management is a big part of the director's job.

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

Part of executive functions is the ability to look to a goal deadline and assess where an organization is in meeting it.

Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true.

The fact that you can't do everything doesn't mean that you shouldn't do what you can do.

One of the challenges of a good policy is trying to figure out what your priorities are.

It is most difficult to deal with. There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

Who reflects too much will accomplish little.

Leaders tend to focus on 'what to do,' but the real issue is more often 'how to do it.'

It's important to have a sound idea, but the really important thing is the implementation.

I don't know how to plan my way out of a paper bag.

If you spend your time thinking about competition, you're not accomplishing much.

You can not achieve an aim unless you have a method.

I think we have to focus,on exactly what the priorities are.

In the organization of any major sporting event or the planning of a building, long-term thinking is key.

The hard part of running a business is that there are a hundred things that you could be doing, and only five of those actually matter, and only one of them matters more than all of the rest of them combined. So figuring out there is a critical path thing to focus on and ignoring everything else is really important.

Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.

No new projects at the moment. There are restrictions to how much I can take on. And I need to finish those that I am committed to do before thinking ahead. But I'd rather they take final shape before we talk of them.

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

One of the things Mr. Kennedy taught me was that in laying out a new project, you shouldn't try to cope with every little problem.