Execution Quotes - Page 10

• Operation Fast and Furious was flawed in concept and flawed in execution. The tactics used in this operation violate Department of Justice policy and should never have been used.

  Eric Holder

  Justice, Tactics, Used

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• I'm committed to increasing long-term value for shareholders and am confident we will continue to do so through the successful execution of our core strategic priorities: the creation of high quality, branded content and experiences, the use of technology, and creating growth in numerous and exciting international markets.

  Bob Iger

  Successful, Technology, Creating

  "Walt Disney Extends Robert Iger's Contract Through June 2016" by Georg Szalai, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 7, 2011.

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• When we look at investing, we always think about 'how defensible is this, how likely is it that somebody is going to copy this.' E-commerce tends to be something easy to copy because it's execution.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Thinking, Looks, Investing

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• How can you make a revolution without executions?

  Vladimir Lenin

  Revolution

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• Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like me column that guided Israel in the deserts, becomes the guardian pillar of light and fire to our friends, a cloud of overwhelming and impenetrable darkness to our enemies.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fire, Clouds, Light

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• I'm using the death penalty to keep Alabama family safe from the most violent criminals, why? It's because it works. Recent studies have said that every time an execution is carried out in the United States, up to 75 murders are prevented the next year.

  Troy King

  Years, Safe, Next Year

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• Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.

  Will Durant

  Art, Lying, Design

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• Genius is when an idea and the execution of that idea are simultaneous.

  Albert Einstein

  Ideas, Genius, Simultaneous

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• From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of a portrait.

  Henri Matisse

  Portraits, Faces, Firsts

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• Content may by trivial. But I do not think that any person may pronounce either upon the weight or upon the triviality of an idea before its execution.

  Ben Shahn

  Thinking, Ideas, Weight

  BEN SHAHN (1957). “THE SHAPE OF CONTENT”

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• I know very well what I am about and that my skies have not been neglected, though they often failed in execution - and often no doubt from over anxiety about them.

  John Constable

  Sky, Anxiety, Doubt

  John Constable, Basil Taylor (1975). “Constable: paintings, drawings and watercolours”

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• Thomas Jefferson explained, Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated. .. If Congress can determine what constitutes the general welfare and can appropriate money for its advancement, where is the limitation to carrying into execution whatever can be effected by money?.

  Bill Drayton

  Advancement, Welfare, Congress

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• I recommend that you should work actively... and study the artistic structures of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Watteau, Poussin, and other painters, even Chardin, where he is an artist. Study very closely their dabbing manner of execution and try to copy a small piece of canvas, just one square inch.

  Kazimir Malevich

  Artist, Squares, Trying

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• You can't plan in advance for everything - every mood swing, every mistake you might make in execution, every shift in your circumstances. But you can keep updating your plan.

  Eric Maisel

  Mistake, Swings, Might

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• Certain music is terrifically inspirational and it is possible, months or even years afterwards, to look at a painting and remember the music that was playing during its execution.

  Robert Genn

  Music, Years, Looks

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• Is it not a great temptation to be so valiant in imagination and so cowardly in execution?

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Imagination, Temptation, Valiant

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• Execution really shapes whether your company takes off or not.

  Pete Cashmore

  Marketing, Shapes, Helpful

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• The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.

  Tom Peters

  Business, Competition, Excellence

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• Vision w/o execution is just hallucination. You need the right combination of visionary + team that can execute

  Walter Isaacson

  Team, Vision, Needs

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• But fortunately for us and for all men, it has not been given unto us to judge, nor to execute, nor to measure out the days and the years of men. We may be most grateful that such matters belong to the Lord God our Father, who sees things past and things to come. And, we may be grateful for the assurance that there is plan and purpose in this world, and in our own lives.

  Richard L. Evans

  Life, Father, Grateful

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• If the practices and processes inside a company don't drive the execution of values, then people don't get it. The question is, do you create a culture of behavior and action that really demonstrates those values and a reward system for those who adhere to them?

  Lou Gerstner

  Leadership, Practice, People

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• I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

  George Washington

  Government, Feelings, Presidents Day

  George Washington, Dorothy Twohig, William Wright Abbot (1987). “The Papers of George Washington: April-June 1789”

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• Such an executive officer the sun never shone on. I have but to show him my design, and I know that it can be done, it will be done...Straight as the needle to the pole he advanced to the execution of my purpose.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Design, Sun

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• The most important rule is to formulate, clearly and precisely, the goal to be reached, and then to retain it unswervingly in mind throughout all the stages of the execution, which are often long and complex.

  Roberto Assagioli

  Long, Goal, Achievement

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• Dress your best on your execution day. Be extremely courteous to your assistant when you lose money. Try not to blame others for your fate, even if they deserve blame. Never exhibit any self-pity. Do not complain.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Adversity, Fate, Self

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