Kevin O'Leary Quotes

Hope is not strategy. Hope fits with vision, but we must have a strategy and a process to make our vision become a reality.

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

Plan your work and work your plan. Decide in advance exactly how you are going to get from where you are to where you want to go.

If you're to fulfill your vision for a better life, you must formulate a plan of action. Effective planning involves identifying and prioritizing those actions that will move you most efficiently toward your goal.

If you plan it out, and it seems logical to you, then you can do it. I discovered the power of a plan.

The world is full of people who have dreams of playing at Carnegie Hall, of running a marathon, and of owning their own business. The difference between the people who make it across the finish line and everyone else is one simple thing: an action plan.

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.

The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it.

We made certain that there were decent transitional arrangements to get us to where we wanted to go. The same principle will have to apply here or we won't get there.

What gets left out is the narrative between the bullets, which would tell us who's going to do what and how we're going to achieve the generic goals on the list.

In every aspect of life, have a game plan, and then do your best to achieve it.

If you can clearly articulate the dream or the goal, start.

Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

Vision without execution is delusion.

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.

For every philosophical idea about how we're going to do things, there has to be a plan to get there, and we have to be able to execute it, first in practice and then in games.

As a mayor, my instinct is to really think about how to get something done and not to make the promise unless you have some view of the pathway. You don't have to have it all figured out, but you have to have a pathway there.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

A goal without a plan is a wish. What's your plan? It's on you, because you have to do all the work.

It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.

A goal without a plan is only a dream.

Pick a goal, make a realistic plan to reach that goal, work through each step of the plan, and repeat.

We have to have the Vision. And we have to form the Intention. And we have to adopt the Means. Vision. Intention. Means. And if we do that, then it works! Every individual, every church, every organization... that's all we need to do.

Dream big. Start small and then connect the dots