Laurel Lea Quotes

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.

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

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 guess I harboured hopes that things would happen more quickly, but I'm not disappointed.

The best ideas are useless unless carried out.

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

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

Great execution is at least 10 times more important and a 100 times harder than a good idea.

Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.

Having a great idea is simply not enough. The eventual goal is vastly more important than any idea. It is how ideas are implemented that counts in the long run

She had reason to doubt him; he was real good at planning but real bad at doing.

Reaching for the stars, perfectionists may end up clutching at air.

In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.

Focus on execution rather than just the idea.

Ideation without execution is delusion

How was is that life never worked out the way it did in his head?

You have to take a plan that might work and make it work

Those who think that the rewarding things in life are somewhere over the rainbow 'burn their toast a lot,' said Pooh

It's hard dealing with day to day disappointments and feeling like you can't find success. Especially when your best friend is Pixar.

Note to self... Sex with blow-up doll is not as good as advertised.

Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look.

Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.

Not everything comes together in the best way ever every day. It just doesn't.

It's surprising how many people get bogged down in analysing, planning, and organizing when what they really need to do is take action.

Getting the big things right that make all the money, that's long cycle, really executing in a way that allows you to do it, that's short cycle.