Swift Execution Quotes

My machine [the guillotine] will take off a head in a twinkling and the victim will feel nothing but a refreshing coolness. We cannot make too much haste, gentlemen, to allow the nation to enjoy this advantage.

In a special operations mission, the concept of speed is simple. Get to your objective as fast as possible. Any delay will expand your area of vulnerability.

No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over.

What is done well is done quickly enough.

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.

Get there first with the most.

Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

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.

Thus, though I have heard of successful military operations that were clumsy but swift, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

The shortest answer is doing.

You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.

All my work begins with drawings. I don’t labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line. I like to be able to get swift curves in the plant drawings that are usually drawn in five to ten minutes.

People love fast. When you're fast people think you're smart, think your products are of higher quality, think your management is of higher quality, think that you're worth more and they're willing to pay more money for it. So, I'm really big into speed.

I'm a fan of things I can get done fast! It feels awesome because it heats up in your hand, and leaves your skin tingly and clean.

There are twenty ways of going to a point, and one is the shortest; but set out at once on one. A man who has that presence of mind which can bring to him on the instant all he knows, is worth for action a dozen men who know as much, but can only bring it to light slowly.

Hours of preparation for something that is excecuted, with extreme precision, in a few minutes. Just as with a judo throw.

I like to work fast and I like to work intensively.