Nick Nurse Quotes

Vision without execution is delusion.

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

Execution really shapes whether your company takes off or not.

Once you articulate an agenda, you have to follow it.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

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.

A plan is always successful if the plan is good.

I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.

What gets left out is the narrative between the bullets, which would tell us who's going to do what and how we're going to achieve the generic goals on the list.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

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.

As a mayor, my instinct is to really think about how to get something done and not to make the promise unless you have some view of the pathway. You don't have to have it all figured out, but you have to have a pathway there.

Vision is nothing without a plan to execute it.

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

It is one thing to conceive a good plan, and another to execute it

Vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.

We need to give thought, but we also need to take action. You need to dream without just being a dreamer.

You have to take a plan that might work and make it work

A goal without a plan is a wish. What's your plan? It's on you, because you have to do all the work.

We're not going to talk about what we're going to accomplish, we're going to talk about how we're going to do it.

We need to have a plan equal to the challenge.

Once a decision is made, you should stop worrying and start working. It’s not always what we know that makes it a good decision. It is what we do to implement and execute it that makes it a good decision.

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