Alan Perlis Quotes

If a guy doesn't work hard and doesn't play well, he can't lead anything. All he is, is a talker.

You have to step up when your number is called.

Leadership and greatness comes to those who follow-through. Who stand for near-flawless execution.

People can expect that from me as premier: If there's something to be done, something to be fixed, it'll happen.

My role isn't just receiving.

Sometimes you've got to just dig down deep and be accountable for the role that you have on the team.

I need to be the leader day in and day out - and I will be.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

You have to do things people see or you don't get to do anything.

I have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else.

There is no accountability today... no willingness to focus on big ideas.

When you left the house today, you had the intention of putting clothes on and you did. You didn't try to put your pants on today. You simply put them on. The same has to hold for all of our intentions. We don't try to be more loving partners. We make the intention, and we act on it.

Decisions are made by those who show up.

I have zero tolerance for people who don't come completely prepared. I expect contribution, I expect attendance, and I expect directors to take trips and visit the company's programs.

They are no longer going to serve you well. You have to commit. I think the biggest word is commit. I hear women say to me all the time, and men - I want to, I want to.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

But any perception of this application being speeded up requires me to take responsibility.

We will not spend four years blaming others, we will take responsibility.

You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.

My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it.

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

We've got to prove that we can lead, and I'm going to be all-in to help prove that.

It's one thing to make the speeches. It's another to make the tough decisions.

[President] McKinley gave [Lt. Andrew Sommers] Rowan a letter to be delivered to [General Calixto] Garcia: Rowan took the letter and did not ask, "Where is he at?" By the eternal, there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college in the land. It is not book learning that young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do the thing—"carry a message to Garcia.