Reid Hoffman Quotes

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

The real heart of strategy is the strategist.

Everything in strategy is very simple, but that does not mean everything is very easy.

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

If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does.

Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.

Vision with action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare.

The best ideas are useless unless carried out.

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

Even the best team, without a sound plan, can't score.

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

The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.

Strategic quitting is the secret of successful organizations

The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method.

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.

Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.

Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.

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.

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

Visionary CEOs are not 'just' great at assuring world-class execution of a tested and successful business model: they are also world-class innovators.

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.

Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

Ideas are easy. Execution is everything. It takes a team to win.

Business strategy is the battleplan for a better future.