Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

I think that before you take on nation building in your mind's eye as to how it should be, you'd better have a clear understanding if this is doable and will work.

A plan is always successful if the plan is good.

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

On Pragmatism: It's all very well in theory but it doesn't work in practice

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

Usefulness depends on tractability.

We have a strategic plan. It's called 'doing things'.

Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

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.

I know what to do and I go and execute.

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

It is easy to say that something should be done. However to say what, when and how is more difficult.

It's one thing to be able to analyze something. It's another to implement it or execute on a vision or even to get a whole bunch of people to rally behind it.

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.

Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.

Everything depends upon execution; having just a vision is no solution.

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.

The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.

I'd rather have a second-best decision diligently pursued than a first-best decision lackadaisically pursued.