Jack Kerouac Quotes

If you have a truly big idea, the wrong technique won't kill it. And if you don't have a big idea, the right technique won't help you

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.

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

Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.

Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.

It's a romantic notion that you're going to have one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great... but the execution and delivery are what's key.

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.

A great idea is not enough.

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.

The engineering is secondary to the vision.

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

Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

Vision without execution is delusion.

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

Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

The real heart of strategy is the strategist.

Ideas are just a multiplier of execution.

When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end.

It's important not to overstate the benefits of ideas. Quite frankly, I know it's kind of a romantic notion that you're just going to have this one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great. But the fact is that coming up with an idea is the least important part of creating something great. It has to be the right idea and have good taste, but the execution and delivery are what's key.

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

Many times when people have a vision, they think in terms of a big vision - I want to take my city for Christ. But the problem with many pastors and this type of vision is this: they haven't developed the strategy to fulfill that vision. A pastor preaches a dream or vision to his/her people, they get excited for a week, a month, or a couple of months, but there is no strategy, planning, or process to fulfill that vision.

Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important.