Fast Execution Quotes

I see myself as the mind of the business which takes care of every last detail; if you do not do this you cannot be fast enough.

The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could.

When I did 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn't walk.

At least before my hip replacement, I had a quick first step. I could get by you off the dribble. My business game is the same way. I can turn an idea into a business before you know it's going to be important. My first step will blow by you.

We work as a team, and that is a huge part of why we have been successful; we run fast as a team.

It's easy to move fast or be obsessed with quality, but the trick is you have to do both at a startup.

Observe, orient, decide, act. It's fighter pilot terminology. If you have the faster OODA loop in a dogfight, you live. The other person dies. In Silicon Valley, the OODA loop of your decision-making is effectively what differentiates your ability to succeed.

We're not too top heavy with executives. I don't have to check with New York or L.A. My crew walks in, we talk about something, and either we do it or we don't. There's not a long, drawn out process.

For me, the most important thing is to keep everything moving very fast, so when I have an idea, I can realize it and make it audible as soon as possible.

Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.

In the technology world, you have to execute fast or you're out of business.

When we decide to do something, we do it quickly.

The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible.

So that would be my input and I'd go off and I'd work on another film, and then I'd catch up with them later on in the year. We just kind of nursed the piece along. There was no timeframe. We didn't have anyone pushing us except ourselves to make the film, and a desire. And then the organic kind of naming of Roger; then it happened really fast.

I can turn an idea into a business before you know it's going to be important. My first step will blow by you.

It's like this: The time between having an idea and its public launch is measured in days not months, weeks not years.

Continuous productivity manifests itself as an environment where the evolving tools and culture make it possible to innovate more and faster than ever, with significantly improved execution.

I've got the recording process down, and I can knock it out very quickly.

I think a benefit is that we try to put it up in a short time. From the decision to do this mission until we fly, it's six months and one week or so, so it's a very short time.

Everything you do needs to be a short fuse ... not [as] an R&D problem for the sake of doing R&D ... we are looking to you for solutions ... we want them fast.

One of the biggest advantages that start ups have is execution speed and you have to have this relentless operating rhythm.

We were fortunate enough to shoot 'Alps' - write the script and shoot it - right after 'Dogtooth' premiered in Cannes. So we didn't just sit around and wait to figure out what to do because 'Dogtooth' was successful. We just wanted to make another film fast, so we just went ahead and did it.