Jasper Johns Quotes

Well done is better than well said.

The proof is in the results, and the proof will be in the ongoing ability to execute.

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.

Talk is talk; action on the field is action on the field.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

To be is to do.

There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done.

There are the talkers and there are the doers.

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.

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

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.

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

A dream will not become an innovation if there is no realization.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

The best ideas are useless unless carried out.

Many speeches can be heard throughout the world, but one always has to wait for deeds

It's deeds we need, not words.

Vision without execution is delusion.

Performance is better than promise. Exuberant assurances are cheap.

Look at my record - I always bring a finish.

It is easy to talk about development. However, it entails painstaking efforts to actually make it happen.

Talk is cheap; play the game.