Herb Kelleher Quotes

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

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

Vision without execution is hallucination.

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

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

In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.

In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.

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

A plan is always successful if the plan is good.

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

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

I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

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.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

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

It's deeds we need, not words.

Vision without execution is delusion.

Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.

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

It's important to have a sound idea, but the really important thing is the implementation.

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.

An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.

Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.

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