JFK decided to land a man on the moon before the Soviets. When he asked rocket engineer Wernher von Braun how they'd do it, von Braun answered: "the will to do it." Commitment, not planning, moves mountains.
Nothing ever gets done when people stand around asking how. The times that we accomplish incredible things is when we make the commitment. Former President John F. Kennedy called a meeting, and when I was a kid, to illustrate that something was impossible, we would say, you have as much chance of doing that as the man going to the moon. John F. Kennedy called a meeting, and the meeting was set up to say that we're going to beat the Russians to the moon. And the question was asked, how are we going to do it? And he looked at Wernher von Braun. He was a very brilliant scientist from Germany. And everybody was set to hear a long lecture of budget and the whole mechanics of what it's going to take And he spoke these words: the will to do it. Just 5 words. How are we going to go to the moon? The will
