The game is a game, and things happen, and you can't always execute your plan as perfectly as you'd like to.
Many people don't focus enough on execution. If you make a commitment to get something done, you need to follow through on that commitment.
The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid.
Nominally, there is one executive for every eight federal employees, a ratio that would bankrupt many private industries.
The upper 1 percent, the people down on Wall Street, the corporate executives, they're the people that control this economy.
I am they type of person that once I make a decision, I must execute. Maybe I am a perfectionist in this way.
As the leader of twelve apostles, even Jesus had more executive experience than Obama.
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.
Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time; they're always experimenting and adapting based on what they learn.
No one's ever going to make a PG-13 animated film unless David Fincher executive produces it and puts it out on Netflix, and then if it's a success everyone will change.
If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions.
My dad worked as an executive at Lockheed Aircraft and worked on the U-2 and things like that. My mother was a homemaker, and she was vice-president of the Democratic Council of California back in the '50s.
When you bring the scale and precision of data-driven platforms to the brilliance of great media executions, magic will happen. Delivering on that vision for the Independent Web is the mission of Federated Media Publishing.
I feel that a great coach is one that has a vision, sets a plan in place, has the right people in place to execute that plan and then accepts the responsibility if that plan is not carried out.
The good parts about being a public company are increased discipline, increased execution and increased transparency to make sure that you are really building a company for a hundred years.
Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.
In setting goals and executing a strategy, Wanda is sophisticated. We have good systems and departments. If targets are not reached, a yellow light goes off.
But I would have executed much greater things, had not government always opposed my exertions, and placed others in situations which would have suited my talents.
While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it's hard. Invest in the spirit.
My life has two modes. One is sitting around writing and contemplating or building things. The other is execution mode. It takes a while to switch from one to the other.
I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an instant.
