David A. R. White Quotes

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.

You can have X's and O's, you can have talent, but if you don't have a vision, it won't work.

There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

Only great people can make great products.

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

A plan is always successful if the plan is good.

Someone asked me what are the secrets to my success, and I said 'There are three: Timing, timing, timing.'

Over time, the product we produce has been consistently successful here in America and around the world. Apparently, we are doing something right.

You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom.

I get asked a lot what the key is to creating a hit show, and I have a standard answer: Do everything right, and then get lucky 10 ways.

The engineering is secondary to the vision.

Sound strategy starts with having the right goal.

Vision with action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

Vision without execution is delusion.

You need a commitment which is long term and a commitment to leadership, because that's the only way you build excellence.

You can have the best product in the world, you can have the best motivation in the world, you can have best education in the world, you can have all the money in the world - but if you don't have direction, you'll never go anywhere.

As in life, so with television: timing is everything.

In politics and life, timing is everything.

If you think back to the beginning of the label, we knew we had to strike quickly and aggressively and go for the brass ring.

Age is just a number when you possess real quality and a game plan.

No one can predict the future, but what I do know is that myself and my team work hard every day to make sure that my vision, my sound, and my brand reach their full potential.

If we launch a new product, we have to time it right. It's not about how soon you can do it but how well we can do it.

I never like to talk about things until we're already successful. The moment you announce what you're thinking about doing, you've already created a ticking time bomb.

If the vision is not right and if the right group of players is not together, it doesn't come together.