William Pollard Quotes

It's one thing to make a choice. It's another to put that choice into practice.

I'm certainly hoping that all the recommendations that we have heard will be implemented.

A great idea is not enough.

A plan is always successful if the plan is good.

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.

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

There's a big difference between saying you are for something and saying how you're going to achieve it.

Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.

Execution really shapes whether your company takes off or not.

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.

Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed.

Ideas are cheap. The difficult part is finding the team to execute them.

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.

Good intentions are not enough. They've never put an onion in the soup yet.

A lot of times, people start out with a lot of good ideas, but then they don't execute. They lose the purity of their vision. You end up running around in circles.

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

It is easy to say that something should be done. However to say what, when and how is more difficult.

The best ideas are useless unless carried out.

A lot of the ideas for solving many of our problems are already in place, but ideas don’t travel.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

Vision without execution is delusion.

The proof is in the results, and the proof will be in the ongoing ability to execute.

Life is about choices, and the grace - or lack thereof - with which you execute them is a make-or-break moment in anyone's life.

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

I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy.