Raymond Kwok Quotes

A great idea is not enough.

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

The best ideas are useless unless carried out.

Vision without execution is delusion.

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

I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

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

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.

In the military, as in any organization, giving the order might be the easiest part. Execution is the real game.

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.

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

First of all, you've got to have a vision of 'What kind of program do I want to have?' Then you've got to have a plan to implement it. Then you've got to set the example that you want, develop the principles and values that are important, and get people to buy into it.

You can have X's and O's, you can have talent, but if you don't have a vision, it won't work.

History is full of people with great ideas, but leaders also need to ensure their visions become reality.

What makes success is not your genius idea, but the execution and follow-through around it

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

A team of giants needs giant pitchers who throw good ideas but every pitcher needs an outstanding catcher. Without giant catchers, the ideas of the giant pitchers may eventually disappear.

If the right people do the right things, we can walk, we can have a future. But if people don't put time into it to make it run in a right way, I don't think your team will work.

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.

Execution really shapes whether your company takes off or not.

I always love that phrase, 'Oh, this is a good idea, but it's execution dependent.' As if anything in life is not execution dependent. Breathing is execution-dependent.

Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation.

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.