The on-brand execution of best practices tailored to your unique audience is what leads to the best execution.
Before innovation - or practical creativity - there is insight. You must see the world differently.
Problem-insight precedes solution insight. Someone has to recognise a problem before they start to solve the problem...
My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thin...
Trust gives you the permission to give people direction, get everyone aligned, and give them the energy to go get the job done. Trust enables you to execute with excellence and produce extraordinary results. As you execute with excellence and deliver...
Record Company Executive: [talking about the Opry] He's been banned for smashing out the footlights. Record Company Executive: If he smashes out lights at Folsom, they're gonna keep him there. Johnny Cash: [laughing]
The details of the personal expenses that executives put on the company tab often are not known because loopholes in federal disclosure rules let publicly traded companies generally avoid disclosing the perks they give executives along with pay and s...
When an Indian fights, he only shoots to kill.
I have heard talk and talk, but nothing is done.
We,Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of the Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University, being in this the twenty-fourth year of our life, summoned by the wisdom of Almighty God and the unanimous voi...
Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.
The chief incalculable in war is the human will.
The executive power in our government is not the only, perhaps not even the principal, object of my solicitude. The tyranny of the legislature is really the danger most to be feared, and will continue to be so for many years to come. The tyranny of t...
But sometimes we are not drawn to that which is different from what we know and fear. Sometimes we are drawn to that which is exactly the same.
As an innovator, you need to be aware of how traditions, habits and bias can act as barriers to accepting new ideas.
Innovation can start with wanting what does not yet exist - and finding a solution - or seeing what does not yet exist - and finding an opportunity.
What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.
Sir, what can be said of these things? Is it the arm of the flesh that hath done these things? Is it the wisdom and counsel, or strength of man? It is the Lord only. God will curse that man and his house that dares to think otherwise. Sir, you see th...
[changing his baby son's diaper] Police Chief Aiello: Hey, hey, let Papa change you. Come on, everything will be swell. Come on, come on, come on... [removes the diaper] Police Chief Aiello: What the fuck is this? What is this? Huh? What's that? LOOK...
McMurphy: What are we doing in here, Chief? Huh? What's us two guys doing in this fucking place? Let's get out of here. Out. Chief Bromden: Canada? McMurphy: Canada. We'll be there before these sonofabitches know what hit 'em. Listen to Randall on th...
