John Anderson Quotes

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.

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

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

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

I felt a sense of fulfillment that an action plan, which I'd laid on the table on the 2nd of February 1990, had been fulfilled, had been properly implemented within the time frame which I envisaged.

With a definite, step-by-step plan - ah, what a difference it makes! You cannot fail, because each step carries you along to the next, like a track.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

When you're transitioning, and you're trying to develop a better brand of soccer, at some point, you have to step backward before you step forward.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

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

Execution gets divided into two key questions: 1) can you figure out what to do and 2) can you get it done.

I'm very much a creative person, but you've got to do the follow-through. A lot of people start out with an exciting thing and they want to take over the world, but really the people who do take over the world have a good plan of how to get there and the steps along the way.

To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.

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.

The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past.

The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.

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

Once an organization has a strong sense of mission, leaders can focus on trying new things.

There's a big difference between saying you are for something and saying how you're going to achieve it.

A plan must have the assumptions specified.

We’ve already decided to change. The question is: In which direction do we change, and from where do we start?

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.

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

I think people know that I've got things in my mind that I want to do and things I wanted to change in time. I can't do it all overnight.