Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

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

Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important.

The best ideas are useless unless carried out.

Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.

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

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

It's one thing to make a choice. It's another to put that choice into practice.

What makes success is not your genius idea, but the execution and follow-through around 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 don't execute your ideas, they die.

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.

A great idea is not enough.

Ideas are cheap. The difficult part is finding the team to execute them.

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.

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

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

To understand the theory which underlies all things is not sufficient. Theory is but the preparation for practice.

Having an eye is one thing, but you have to be able to execute.

Saying is one thing and doing is another.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

Vision without execution is delusion.

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

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

I had ideas. A lot were good, but in many ways, I had no idea or experience about how to carry them out.