Rapid Execution Quotes

One’s objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it over. Your problem won’t improve with age.

There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.

Strategy equals execution. All the great ideas and visions in the world are worthless if they can't be implemented rapidly and efficiently. Good leaders delegate and empower others liberally, but they pay attention to details, every day.

The metaphor that I frequently use for entrepreneurship is jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane plane on the way down.

Move fast. A sense of urgency is the one thing you can develop that will separate you from everyone else. When you get a good idea, do it now.

The best founders work on things that seem small but they move really quickly. They get things done really quickly.

We call it infectious impatience. That's his hallmark and we are trying to inculcate it in the entire organization. Infectious impatience. So that things not only get done but get done in double quick time.

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

I'm obsessed with speed. I'm always asking myself, 'Why can't we do things faster? Why can't it happen more efficiently? Why is this requiring three meetings instead of one?'

With film sometimes you're thrown in there and you literally hit the ground running, taking your best shot and just leave it up to the editing.

Fast tempo is essential for success; do it, fix it, try it!

Get the overall. Some of my films may have been crude at times, or tough, or missed the points, but I've tried to get the overall in. I think that's more important. You may miss a thing or two, but you move faster. If you can do it in three takes, do it in three takes.

You need to have a culture where people have very high quality standards in everything the company does, but still move quickly.

You must first realize the thing completely in your mind. Then grasp the brush, fix your attention so that you see clearly what you wish to paint; start quickly, move the brush, follow straight what you see before you, as the buzzard swoops down when the hare jumps out. If you hesitate one moment, it is gone.

You sing fast and hope to get out.

The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.

I pretty quickly move from an idea to possibilities for execution. If there's one advantage, I think, with working in television for even a short amount of time is trying to gain a faculty for processing a storyline or an idea and how to then best implement that and execute that as swiftly as possible.

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

To really disrupt a big market, you have to look at the marketplace from a long-term perspective. You have to move very fast but knowing that disruptive solutions just take time to build.

The only thing that's difficult is reloading when things are happening. Can you get it done fast enough?

Work smart. Get things done. No nonsense. Move fast.

In TV, it is important to get everything on film as fast as possible. You rehearse every day of the week, and each day, the performance may be changed. The process is more result-oriented than in the movies. It's more about working quickly.

Skunk works were emblematic of corporate structures that focused on execution and devalued innovation.

I was building the plane while flying it in the first term.

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.