Mary Kay Ash Quotes

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

Genius is in the idea. Impact, however, comes from action!

If you don't execute your ideas, they die.

I know it's easy to imagine, But it's easier to just do, See, if you can't do what you imagine, then what is imagination to you?

An idea is worthless unless you use it.

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

When you come up with a good idea, you don't have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.

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

Ideas are a dime a dozen, but people who put them into effect are extremely rare. Be the minority and make it happen!

Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

Now, ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea itself is worth nothing. An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything. The men who have won fame and fortune through having an idea are those who devoted every ounce of their strength and every dollar they could muster to putting it into operation. Ford had a big idea, but he had to sweat and suffer and sacrifice to make it work.

Ideas are just a multiplier of execution.

A brilliant idea without action is like Mark McGwire playing baseball without a bat.

I don't practice anything. I spend time looking over ideas and then just get out and do it.

There's at least a hundred times more people with great ideas than people that are willing to put in the effort to execute them well.

Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them. The market rewards execution, not ideas.

One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.

Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything.

To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.

Ideas by themselves are not worth anything, only executing well is what creates value.

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

The best ideas are useless unless carried out.

Good ideas are a dime a dozen. It's what you do with them that counts.

Never leave the site of a strong idea without doing something to execute around it.