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This leadership transition is consistent with the Board's plans developed last year when I returned as CEO and Anne was named president and COO. The plan called for a gradual transition of leadership with Anne becoming CEO when the Board was confident of the effective execution of Xerox's turnaround. Clearly, this requirement has been met.

This is the last major positive catalyst for the stock. Going forward, shares should track more closely with the fundamentals of the business because now investors will be focused on execution.

I am pretty shocked. This is a team (Ridge View) that is not as good as us. Our coaching staff had a good game plan, but it comes down to execution and we didn't execute and helped them out with turnovers.

I came from a country where religious fundamentalists, including governmental authorities, denied my freedom to have thoughts that are different from their own. As a punishment, they demanded my execution by hanging. I was forced to leave my own country. I had to pay heavily for the sole reason that I believe in human rights and freedom of expression.

I am very pleased with our first quarter performance, which demonstrated focused execution at all levels of the business and delivered the most successful first quarter in Starbucks history.

Being recognized as a technology leader in Supply Chain Execution, particularly by end users, illustrates the value of warehouse management to a company's overall success. We are proud to be named to this list.

Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.

The ontological concept of truth is in the centre of a logic which may serve as a model of pre- technological rationality. It is the rationality of a two-dimensional universe of discourse which, contrasts with the of thought and behavior that develop in the execution of the technological project.

Briony began to understand the chasm that lay between an idea and its execution

When it call comes down to it, nothing trumps execution.

What makes a good client, to me, is one that signed on for the strategy as well as the execution, not just the end product.

Failure is not about insecurity. It's about lack of execution.

Execution is everything.

Most of the time, it's not the concept, but the execution of craft that counts.

A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author.

Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.

Execution halts your breath, helter skelter spiral death.

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

Whether one showed you and execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and would still be content. That's the way to get on in life.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's execution that counts.

The execution of William Bonin was not the traditional gas chamber of the past. That has been ruled cruel and unusual. Instead, we have something that seems very kind and benign and technical; the injection of chemicals, Nazi-style.

Any time I am involved in something from conception to execution, that's obviously a lot more personal, and I'm going to be more invested in it than something where I just show up for a couple days, shoot, and leave.

To top it off, for those of you who are interested in the economics, it costs more to pursue a capital case toward execution than it does to have full life imprisonment without parole.

As a viewer, that's work I respond to - work that I know is singular in some way. If I'm being challenged by something on screen, if I don't quite know why it's happening, I want to know I can do the work of pulling it apart and that there'll be something satisfactory about it. If the architecture is sound, you can be lyrical in execution.

There's no shortage of great ideas. There's a shortage of execution.

Great captains do never use long orations when it comes to the point of execution.

Novell has the necessary resources to be a much more profitable enterprise but it currently lacks the vision, strategy and execution to produce respectable returns.

Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution.

Requiring that an execution be relatively painless...actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based.

Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act - if you can't control outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will always have the last word.

You need to get one thing done well, or else you don't have permission to do anything else.

Ideas are not important in China – execution is

The key to Operations at Wal-Mart is their ability to maintain the highest standards while at the same time getting things done with lockstep execution.

Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.

Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.

The market has priced out near-term bankruptcy risk. But the company still has industry risk, execution risk and turnaround risk.

There has never been any evidence that the death penalty reduces capital crimes or that crimes increased when executions stopped. Tragic mistakes are prevalent...It is clear that there are overwhelming ethical, financial, and religious reasons to abolish the death penalty.

Innovation is rewarded. Execution is worshipped.

Why is it that when it comes to our most cherished social goal [health care], we not only tolerate poor execution, sometimes we even celebrate it?

All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the ideal more and more dominates our public system of education.

An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique.

From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of a portrait.

Execution is the job of the business leader.

Execution is a systematic process of rigorously discussing hows and whats, tenaciously following through, and ensuring accountability.

There must be a punitive expedition against the Jews in Russia, a punitive expedition which will expect: death sentence and execution. Then the world will see the end of the Jews is also the end of Bolshevism.

Plans can be like a winged horse, but their execution plods along pulling carts.

[The necessary and proper clause] neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power to Congress; But it is merely a declaration, for the removal of all uncertainty, that the means of carrying into execution those otherwise granted are included in the grant.

Well, It's a Communist country, and the Communists do not reward personal initiative...except by execution.

Intuition is critical in virtually everything you do. But, without relentless preparation and execution, it is meaningless.

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

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

It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.

It's a romantic notion that you're going to have one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great... but the execution and delivery are what's key.

You don't win on emotion. You win on execution.

Getting the big things right that make all the money, that's long cycle, really executing in a way that allows you to do it, that's short cycle.

The way I do things I usually always prefer to have a very clear strategy and be very focused. At the same time to be very rock solid, and crisp in execution.

The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.

You are your projects!

Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything.

Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them. The market rewards execution, not ideas.

Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of the tradition

The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority.

The obvious objections to the execution of Saddam Hussein are valid and well aired. His death will provoke violent strife between Sunni and Shia Muslims, and between Iraqis in general and the American occupation forces.

For the most part, executions happen in obscurity. If people did hear about executions, if they were publicized, even televised, I fear more would enjoy them than be repelled by them.

Unfortunately the trick to great execution is to say no a lot.

One of the biggest advantages that start ups have is execution speed, and you have to have this relentless operating rhythm.

Great execution towards a terrible idea will get you nowhere.

The company just needs to see you as like this maniacal execution machine.

Stay focused and don't try to do too many things at once. Care about execution quality.

Great execution is at least 10 times more important and a 100 times harder than a good idea…

...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people.

My talent is getting things to work that people think are many decades in the future. I say we can make them happen now.

Is it not a great temptation to be so valiant in imagination and so cowardly in execution?

The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

There is no end to the laws, and no beginning to the execution of them

The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.

How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could truly be interested in?

The execution of the laws is more important than the making them

I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice, 2) Detrimental moral influence of the execution procedure on those who, whether directly or indirectly, have to do with the procedure.

Genius is when an idea and the execution of that idea are simultaneous.

A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is and lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you will go out of business.

Vision without execution is daydreaming.

A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.

Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

Learn diligence before speedy execution.

Execution of the constructive programme in its entirety means more than Swaraj. It means Ram Raj, Khudai Sultanat or the Divine Kingdom.

This is the monstrosity in love, lady, that the will is infinite and the execution confined; that the desire is boundless, and the act a slave to limit.

More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute.

The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect; in execution, the labors of many.

If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, ''God speed her!'' She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.

System in all things should be aimed at; for in execution it renders every thing more easy.

I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power.

Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

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

Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.

The world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution.

Vision without execution is delusion.

Ideas without execution are hallucinations.