Stephen Sondheim Quotes

Vision without execution is delusion.

All your ideas may be solid or even good .. But you have to Actually EXECUTE on them for them to matter.

I'm very much a creative person, but you've got to do the follow-through. A lot of people start out with an exciting thing and they want to take over the world, but really the people who do take over the world have a good plan of how to get there and the steps along the way.

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

Vision without execution is hallucination.

Hope is not strategy. Hope fits with vision, but we must have a strategy and a process to make our vision become a reality.

Having just the vision's no solution, everything depends on execution

In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.

We have a strategic plan. It's called 'doing things'.

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

Execution is everything.

You don't get results by focusing on results. You get results by focusing on the actions that produce results.

A great idea is not enough.

A plan is always successful if the plan is good.

Well done is better than well said.

Without a plan, there's no attack. Without attack, no victory.

Sound strategy starts with having the right goal.

The best ideas are useless unless carried out.

Execution without a long term strategy leads nowhere. Likewise a long term strategy without execution leads nowhere.

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

Potential is just potential until you can pull it off, and you need to show up ready to exercise the plan in mind. I've always come from that place in everything I've ever done.

A plan is a bridge to your dreams. Your job is to make the plan or bridge real, so that your dreams will become real. If all you do is stand on the side of the bank and dream of the other side, your dreams will forever be just dreams.

Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.

Having a great idea is simply not enough. The eventual goal is vastly more important than any idea. It is how ideas are implemented that counts in the long run

Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.