Joseph Pulitzer Quotes

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

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

Many speeches can be heard throughout the world, but one always has to wait for deeds

Look at my record - I always bring a finish.

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

Well done is better than well said.

In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.

There are the talkers and there are the doers.

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.

Talk is talk; action on the field is action on the field.

Talk is cheap; play the game.

Don't ever be impressed with goal setting. Be impressed with goal getting.

I'm not interested until I see their execution.

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

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

You don't get results by focusing on results. You get results by focusing on the actions that produce results.

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do.

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

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

Lots of people dream big and talk about big bold ideas but never do anything. I judge people by what they've done. The ratio of something to nothing is infinite. So just do something.

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

There's a difference between standing up and telling people what you're planning to do and standing up and going and accomplishing something.

I like to work hard and see the results of my hard work.

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.