William Feather Quotes

It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.

Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.

Good ideas are a dime a dozen. It's what you do with them that counts.

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

It is the creative and enterprising spirit of people that is indispensable. Everything else is supplemental.

A lot of drive is innate, self-perpetuated, reinforced energy. As a kid, I could always sell anything I could get my hands on - from newspapers to lemonade to 'TV Guide.' I knew how to make a presentation.

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

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

I've seen every idea. Ideas are irrelevant. You are judged on execution, and the number 1 way to prove that you can execute is by executing.

I don't practice anything. I spend time looking over ideas and then just get out and do it.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless.

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.

When I was an orphan, I was the richest kid at the orphanage because everyone else was complaining about not having anything. But when I discovered that you could get two cents for a Coca-Cola bottle, I would follow people around who were drinking it and ask them if they were almost through with it.

Our visions are the plans of the possible life structure, but they will end in plans if we do not follow them up with a vigorous effort to make them real, just as the architect's plans will end in his drawings if they are not followed up and made real by the builder.

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

If you're not getting work, make your own work. I think that's a good mentality. I suppose I take my drive from my mother and my practicality from my father.

I've been entrepreneurial since middle school. I was always arranging bake sales, dances and school trips to raise money for the Dalton School.

If you don't execute your ideas, they die.

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

A great idea is not enough.

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

It's a fire, it's a passion to get out and to create and to innovate. And that I've always enjoyed and I've always been very proud of is that the people I've done business with, the people around me have always made money.

Lots of people dream big and talk about big bold ideas but never do anything. I judge people by what they've done. The ratio of something to nothing is infinite. So just do something.