Christine Lagarde Quotes

Business principles are only as good as the practices that back them up.

First of all, you've got to have a vision of 'What kind of program do I want to have?' Then you've got to have a plan to implement it. Then you've got to set the example that you want, develop the principles and values that are important, and get people to buy into it.

We have to address impediments that stall implementation of projects and streamline the process to ensure smooth execution going forward. We need to address the leverage levels among corporates to restart investment cycle.

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.

Never leave the site of a strong idea without doing something to execute around it.

Theory is good for the intellect, but action is good for the soul. It's also good for your mental health, your physical health, and your pocketbook.

Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.

Once a decision is made, you should stop worrying and start working. It’s not always what we know that makes it a good decision. It is what we do to implement and execute it that makes it a good decision.

Any kind of vision needs people.

Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.

People want guidance, not rhetoric. They need to know what the plan of action is, and how it will be implemented. They want to be given responsibility to help solve the problem and authority to act on it.

Education without execution is extinction

Better to be right about the trend and wrong about the implementation, than the other way around.

Reading is good, action is better.

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

You can talk all day long, but if you don't do something, it's a waste.

In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make.

To understand is difficult; to act is easy.

My object has been, first to discover correct principles and then to suggest their practical development.

The problem isn't so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.

Ideation without execution is delusion

Sometimes it's easy to have ideas, but somebody has to find a way to do it. Often those responsible for finding a way don't have the idea.

The leader needs to create an environment in which people can analyze the situation and develop a good response.

Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.

People want to be inspired. They want to aspire to something. ... You can have the best product, the best service, the best argument in a debate. But without the effective words you still lose. In the end you need good principles and good language if you are to succeed.