Stephen Sondheim Quotes

Vision without execution is hallucination.

Vision without execution is delusion.

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

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

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

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

Everything depends upon execution; having just a vision is no solution.

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

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.

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.

A great idea is not enough.

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.

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

Sound strategy starts with having the right goal.

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

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

It's one thing to be able to analyze something. It's another to implement it or execute on a vision or even to get a whole bunch of people to rally behind it.

Unless an action is rightly thought out and its steps rightly planned, every stage of its performance will probably remain vague and therefore unsatisfactory for the doer and all those concerned.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who execute them are not.

Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results.

Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.

If you don't execute on your plans, then you don't reach anywhere.

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

Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything.