Malcolm Forbes Quotes

It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.

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

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

I'm not the world's best philosopher. But I am one of the world's best strategists. I will put my strategic abilities against anybody on Earth.

I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.

Without vision you don't see, and without practicality the bills don't get paid.

I'm fascinated with films that deal with strategy because there's a right way and a wrong way to get the job done.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Valor by itself may be respected but without wisdom and calculation it does not lead anywhere.

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.

A plan is a bridge to your dreams. Your job is to make the plan or bridge real, so that your dreams will become real. If all you do is stand on the side of the bank and dream of the other side, your dreams will forever be just dreams.

Life is a kind of chess.

The real heart of strategy is the strategist.

Ideas are just a multiplier of execution.

Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.

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

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

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.

If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies.

Rest assured, for every piece of business the most businesslike thing is to choose the right moment.

All your ideas may be solid or even good .. But you have to Actually EXECUTE on them for them to matter.

Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy

A plan without action is not a plan. It's a speech.

Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.