Strike with Decisive Action Quotes
Ideas are cheap and everywhere; action is rare. The man who moves now, before conditions are perfect, laps everyone still preparing to start. This Execution path holds the greatest quotes ever gathered on taking decisive action. Scroll through and put them to work.
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“The first blow is half the battle.”
“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.”
“Speed is the currency of the future.”
“Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.”
“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”
“Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.”
“Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.”
“You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.”
“Do the obvious when you should obviously do it.”
“Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.”
“A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.”
“Without initiative leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.”
“There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either IN or you're OUT. There is no such thing as life in-between.”
“Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.”
“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.”
“It is always your next move.”
“If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.”
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
“You have to act and act now”
“The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.”
“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.”
“A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.”
“Do the next thing.”
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is mere tenacity. The process is its own reward.”
“If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.”
“The most effective way to do it is to do it.”
“There's no shortage of remarkable ideas, what's missing is the will to execute them.”
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”
“The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance.”
“Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.”
“Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.”
“Don't justify your dreams, execute on them.”
“There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long-range risks of comfortable inaction.”
“The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of a mistake.”
“Either move or be moved.”
“Never leave the site of a strong idea without doing something to execute around it.”
“If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.”
“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
“Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.”
“In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.”
“The merit in action lies in finishing it to the end.”
“Life is like a game of chess. To win, you have to make a move.”
“The shortest answer is doing the thing.”
“The universe rewards the decisive.”
“Never hit if you can help it, but when you have to, hit hard. Never hit soft. You'll never get any thanks for hitting soft.”
“Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.”
“Execution really shapes whether your company takes off or not. 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.”
“Don't take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give generalize whatever they did. Don't over-analyze everything. Just build things and find out if they work.”
“It doesn't have to be perfect. It just has to work.”
