Napoleon Hill Quotes

Vision without execution is hallucination.

You need to have proper management if you're going to move forward.

Vision without execution is delusion.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.

Any system or blueprint for success is better than none at all. Think on paper.

I learned how to order my thoughts, and most important, learned how to develop a plan. I discovered the power of a plan. If you can plan it out, and it seems logical to you, you can do it. And that was the secret to success.

Fail to plan, plan to fail.

If you don't have discipline, you can't have a successful program.

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.

My view is that, as management, the focus has to be on having a strategy and executing it. As you do the strategy and execution, it is important to communicate it consistently.

Vision with action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare.

The 6 Ps: Proper Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Performance

One man of tolerable Abilities may work great Changes, and accomplish great Affairs among Mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and … makes the execution of that same plan his sole Study and Business.

Execution without a long term strategy leads nowhere. Likewise a long term strategy without execution leads nowhere.

Leaders tend to focus on 'what to do,' but the real issue is more often 'how to do it.'

Leadership is inspiring people. Management is keeping the trains running on time.

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

You can't do anything successfully in life without leadership.

I would like to be a manager, to organize everything in training, see if my philosophy could work, and give it to the team.

There are dreamers and there are planners; the planners make their dreams come true.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.