Wilbur Ross Quotes

Vision without execution is delusion.

A great idea is not enough.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

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

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.

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

The best ideas are useless unless carried out.

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

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

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.

It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

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.

I felt a sense of fulfillment that an action plan, which I'd laid on the table on the 2nd of February 1990, had been fulfilled, had been properly implemented within the time frame which I envisaged.

I know what to do and I go and execute.

Having an eye is one thing, but you have to be able to execute.

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

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

I've seen every idea. Ideas are irrelevant. You are judged on execution, and the number 1 way to prove that you can execute is by executing.

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.

Having just the vision's no solution, everything depends on execution

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

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

It is one thing to conceive a good plan, and another to execute it

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.