A Quote by Thomas A. Edison

Vision without execution is delusion.

Thomas A. Edison

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Thomas A. Edison
American - Inventor
February 11, 1847 - October 18, 1931

Vision without execution is delusion. The joy is in the results

Peter Drucker

Ideation without execution is delusion

Robin Sharma

Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination

Thomas A. Edison

Vision without execution is like a plane without wings, or Dumbo without ears, it just won't fly.

Bill Capodagli

Vision without execution is daydreaming.

Bill Gates

Without execution, 'vision' is just another word for hallucination.

Mark V. Hurd

Of one thing, however, I am certain. Just as an execution without adequate safeguards is unacceptable, so too is an execution when the condemned prisoner can prove that he is innocent. The execution of a person who can show that he is innocent comes perilously close to simple murder.

Harry A. Blackmun

The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.

Andrew Young

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

Joel A. Barker

Vision, Uncertainty, and Knowledge of Materials are inevitabilities that all artists must acknowledge and learn from: vision is always ahead of execution, knowledge of materials is your contact with reality, and uncertainty is a virtue.

David Bayles

Everything depends upon execution; having just a vision is no solution.

Stephen Sondheim

Lesson for the day: vision is always ahead of execution - and it should be.

David Bayles

Having just the vision's no solution, everything depends on execution

Stephen Sondheim

Vision is easy. Ideas are even easier. It's execution that separates the amateurs from the pros.

Blaine Hogan

I always love that phrase, 'Oh, this is a good idea, but it's execution dependent.' As if anything in life is not execution dependent. Breathing is execution-dependent.