Implementation Quotes

Ideas are useless unless used. The proof of their value is in their implementation. Until then, they are in limbo.

Theodore Levitt

Ideas, Useless, Action

Theodore Levitt (1974). “Marketing for business growth”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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Successful organizations understand the importance of implementation, not just strategy, and, moreover, recognize the crucial role of their people in this process.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

Successful, Organization, People

Jeffrey Pfeffer (1998). “The Human Equation: Building Profits by Putting People First”, p.16, Harvard Business Press

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It's not the ideas; it's design, implementation and hard work that make the difference.

Michael Abrash

Hard Work, Ideas, Differences

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Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.

Guy Kawasaki

Business, Hard Work, Self Confidence

Guy Kawasaki (2015). “The Art of the Start 2.0: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything”, p.116, Penguin

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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Introductory speech at a session of the French Academy, December 24, 1896.

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Organizations are successful because of good implementation,not good business plans.

Guy Kawasaki

Successful, Organization, Good Business

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The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.

Jay Samit

Ideas, Bigs, Big Ideas

Twitter post from Jul 31, 2016

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Knowledge is not power; Implementation is power

Garrison Wynn

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Vision without implementation is counterproductive.

Douglas B. Reeves

Vision, Counterproductive

Douglas B. Reeves (2012). “Transforming Professional Development into Student Results”, p.57, ASCD

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A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

Guy Kawasaki

Work, Ideas, Luck

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Most of our troubles are due to poor implementation….wrong priorities and unattainable targets

J. R. D. Tata

Priorities, Target, Unattainable

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Failure is the most effective technique to optimize strategic planning, implementation and processes.

Thomas A. Edison

Technique, Planning, Process

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In order to learn how to do something well, you have to fail sometimes. In order to fail, there has to be a measurement system. And that's the problem with most philanthropy - there's no measurement system. You give somebody some money to do something and most of the time you can really never measure whether you failed or succeeded in your judgment of that person or his ideas or their implementation.

Steve Jobs

Order, Ideas, Giving

Interview with David Sheﬀ, www.scribd.com. February 1, 1985.

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If you focus on design, you can call yourself a designer. If you focus on the implementation of your design, you can call yourself an architect.

Cameron Sinclair

Focus, Design, Architect

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The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.

Russell Brand

Ideas, Revolution, Radical

"Tens of thousands march in London against coalition's austerity measures" by Kevin Rawlinson, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2014.

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Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery.

L Peter Deutsch

Flattery, Form

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Without implementation, all of our Bible studies are worthless.

Rick Warren

Christian, Religion, Study

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Behavior precedes belief - that is, most people must engage in a behavior before they accept that it is beneficial; then they see the results, and then they believe that it is the right thing to do....implementation precedes buy-in; it does not follow it.

Douglas B. Reeves

Believe, People, Doe

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We place the highest value on actual implementation and taking action. There are many things one doesn’t understand and therefore, we ask them why don’t you just go ahead and take action, try to do something? You realize how little you know and you face your own failures and you simply can correct those failures and redo it again and at the second trial you realize another mistake or another thing you didn’t like so you can redo it once again. So by constant improvement, or, should I say, the improvement based upon action, one can rise to the higher level of practice and knowledge.

Fujio Cho

Mistake, Practice, Trying

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It seems to me to be important to distinguish a good idea from poor implementations of it

Ron Jeffries

Ideas, Entrepreneur, Important

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The successful implementation of creative ideas within an organization.

Teresa Amabile

Successful, Organization, Ideas

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In spiritual growth, it is important to avoid imbalances between academic or intellectual learning and practical implementation. Otherwise there is a danger that too much intellectualiza tion will kill the more contemplative practices and too much emphasis on practical implementation without study will kill the understanding. There has got to be a balance.

Dalai Lama

Spiritual, Buddhist, Learning

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There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think it was an excellent solution to the reliability issues with existing search engines.

Shawn Fanning

Thinking, Ideas, Issues

"Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, March 3, 2000.

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Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.

John Carmack

Class, Sometimes, Framework

Twitter post from Mar 31, 2011

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The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation.

Donald Knuth

Design, Kind, Software

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