The key to Operations at Wal-Mart is their ability to maintain the highest standards while at the same time getting things done with lockstep execution.
Unfortunately the trick to great execution is to say no a lot.
Vision without execution is delusion.
Every one minute you spend in planning will save you at least three minutes in execution.
Vision is easy. Ideas are even easier. It's execution that separates the amateurs from the pros.
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
There has never been any evidence that the death penalty reduces capital crimes or that crimes increased when executions stopped. Tragic mistakes are prevalent...It is clear that there are overwhelming ethical, financial, and religious reasons to abolish the death penalty.
Personal excellence can be achieved by a visionary goal, through planning, dedicated execution, and total follow-through.
To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.
In the military, as in any organization, giving the order might be the easiest part. Execution is the real game.
A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex of the sex cannot be remembered, the substantive truth of it, it is by nature self-erasing, you can remember its anatomy and be left with a judgment as to the degree of your liking of it, but whatever it is as a splurge of being, as a loss, as a charge of the conviction of love stopping your heart like your execution, there is no memory of it in the brain, only the deduction that it happened and that time passed, leaving you with a silhouette that you want to fill in again.
It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance to the execution of the injustice; because the injustice will certainly be executed, unless it be forcibly resisted.
We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.
Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.
If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all.
I have been tried and condemned without a hearing, and I suppose I shall have to go to the execution.
Everybody supplies their own ammunition for their own execution
You are not going to be lost when you get to hell. If you are without Christ, you are lost right now. Your trial is already over. You've already been sentenced. You're just waiting for execution morning to roll around.
The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.
Invention requires an excited mind; execution, a calm one.
Execution is the ability to mesh strategy with reality, align people with goals, and achieve the promised results.
The specifically human capacity for language enables children to provide for auxiliary tools in the solution of difficult tasks, to overcome impulsive action, to plan a solution to a problem prior to its execution, and to master their own behavior.
Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.
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