Execution Quotes
Choose a Pillar of Greatness
Pick a Type of Insight
“A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.”
“One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.”
“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
“Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.”
“We think a wise person is someone who solves problems. Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids problems.”
“The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.”
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
“The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom”
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
“A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect.”
“To a great mind, nothing is little.”
“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.”
“Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.”
“I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.”
“Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.”
“When making decisions, ask yourself: Will this make me stronger, smarter, or richer?”
“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
“If you don't make a decision, time will make it for you - and time will always default to no.”
“Successful people make decisions quickly and change them slowly. Unsuccessful people make decisions slowly and change them quickly.”
“There is nothing quite as useless as doing with great efficiency something you shouldn't be doing at all.”
“Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.”
“The key to success is to decide what's most important to you and then take massive action each day to make it better.”
“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.”
“Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.”
“It's not hard to make decisions once you know what your values are.”
“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.”
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
“The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.”
“To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks”
“Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.”
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks”
“Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome.”
“You can't eat straight A's.”
“Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.”
“It might make sense just to get some in case it catches on”
“You have to be willing to accept the risk of failure if you want to succeed on a grand scale”
“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
“Take risks - not reckless ones, but thoughtful risks”
“A man only has so much knowledge as he puts to work.”
“Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.”
“Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.”
“If you're not willing to take risks, you don't deserve the rewards”
“If you're not willing to take risks, you're not going to get very far”
“Until you can apply the information that you've learned, then and only then will you be rewarded.”
“You have to be willing to take risks”
“The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.”
“I dream of men who take the next step instead of worrying about the next thousand steps.”
“Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.”
“It is always your next move.”
“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”
“Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
“If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.”
“The best way to get something done is to begin.”
“You may delay, but time will not.”
“Now is the watchword of the wise.”
“Do noble things, do not dream them all day long.”
“Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.”
“Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough”
“Dream big. Start small. Act now.”
“You have to act and act now”
“The smallest deed is far superior to the grandest intention.”
“Success comes on when you act on what you know and believe.”
“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
“Light tomorrow's fire with today.”
“If you want to change your future, you have to work on it today.”
“You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.”
“Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets.”
“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
“It's not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.”
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
“The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps we must step up the stairs.”
“I never went to fashion school - I just learned by doing”
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
“One today is worth two tomorrows.”
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
“You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
“Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.”
“What you do has far greater impact than what you say.”
“Life is not a dress rehearsal. Stop practicing what you're going to do and just go do it. In one bold stroke you can transform today.”
“If your ship hasn't come in, swim out to it.”
“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
“The future never enters the present as a finished product.”
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
“Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.”
“There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either IN or you're OUT. There is no such thing as life in-between.”
“Don't wait. The time will never be just right.”
“Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident, and more and more successful.”
“Things may come to those who wait, but only what's left by those who hustle.”
“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
“We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.”
“All glory comes from daring to begin.”
“If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.”
“Your future starts with today's actions.”
“You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.”
“Well done is better than well said.”
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
“Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.”
“You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.”
“Life is fragile. We're not guaranteed a tomorrow, so give it everything you've got”
“Do, or do not. There is no try.”
“If not you, then who? If not now, then when?”
“Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant of metals.”
“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”
“While most are dreaming of success, winners wake up and work hard to achieve it.”
“Take action. Learn as you go.”
“We write tomorrow's headlines today.”
“Without initiative leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.”
“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”
“Vision without action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare.”
“Some people dream of great accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them.”
“Do it now. Sometimes 'later' becomes 'never.'”
“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.”
“Never leave till tomorrow that which you can do today.”
“Speed is the currency of the future.”
“You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.”
“Whatever you do or dream you can do - begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.”
“Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.”
“Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.”
“In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
“Do not 'tell' the world what you can do - 'show' it!”
“When you do what you can, the universe will do what you can't.”
“Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.”
“Never mistake motion for action.”
“Do the obvious when you should obviously do it.”
“Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
“What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.”
“It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen.”
“The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
“A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.”
“The path to success is to take massive, determined action.”
“The hardest thing to do is start”
“Only begin and then the mind grows heated. Only begin and the task will be completed.”
“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
“The universe likes SPEED. Don't delay, don't second-guess, don't doubt. When the opportunity or impulse is there... ACT.”
“To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.”
“Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.”
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”
“The best way of learning about anything is by doing”
“Action is the real measure of intelligence.”
“The chief condition on which life, health, and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.”
“Never automate something that can be eliminated, and never delegate something that can be automated.”
“Routines free your mind to focus on the big things.”
“A good system shortens the road to the goal.”
“I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.”
