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

Write down your Dream or story; create your own unique Values, Believe in them, and use them to make all decisions; Dare to take some risks; and Do the planning, revisions and details to realize the Dream.

There is an old Indian saying, “When legends die, dreams end. When dreams end, there is no more greatness.” Leaders like Walt Disney inspire their organizations to keep their legends and stories alive.

When values are deeply embedded within an organization, they seldom change.

Twenty years ago if you provided someone with horrible service, it may take weeks or even months for the word-of-mouth message to get out to 15-20 potential customers.

Social media can work to a CEO’s advantage. Someone with a great product in a small town in the middle of nowhere can compete in the world marketplace.

The role of any exceptional facilitator or consultant is to work themselves out of a job.

In today’s global economy, innovations and improvements to products and services are not only happening more rapidly than ever before in history, they are being communicated instantaneously. So, it’s “innovate or die”!

In the long run, it costs more to provide poor rather than good service.

People are over 20 times more likely to remember a story than a series of facts and figures. A good story touches our hearts.

If your values are not used as the constitution of your organization, or if they are compromised, they become just words on paper.

My mother’s work ethic, her attitude, and the way she treated each and every customer as if they were her best friend were better lessons than could be found in all the text books in the world.

In the best organizations, love is the real “pixie dust.”

Organizational culture begins in HR. This means to hire for attitude and train for skill.

One of the reasons for The Walt Disney Company’s long- term success is really the first of Dr. Deming’s famous points, “create constancy of purpose.” In his professional career,

Knowledge is the understanding of what, how and why we need to do something. Skill is applying that knowledge in a practical situation.

The key is to make sure you are doing the “right things” before you worry about doing things “right”.

This is an execution, not surgery. Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the least pain?

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who execute them are not.

God made me in my beautiful form so I’m just trying to execute it.

All your ideas may be solid or even good .. But you have to Actually EXECUTE on them for them to matter.

One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.

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 thinker.

The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery … As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of science.

I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.