Quotes About Outcome

The only result of a horse race which historians can tell us with absolute confidence is one that has already been run.

the duel's outcome would decide "the damnation of the one who is in the wrong, in both soul and body, as a result of the great oaths they have sworn, whence they will be judged by the sentence of God." After

We tried it again and it didn't work out. Sour milk is always sour milk. When something goes bad it stays bad.You don't put sour milk in the refrigerator one day,and take it out the next and expect it to taste sweet.

we must focus our energies exclusively on producing outcomes that the customer perceives as valuable.

achieving failure: successfully executing a plan that leads nowhere.

They had "achieved failure"—successfully, faithfully, and rigorously executing a plan that turned out to have been utterly flawed.

How do we know that the problem is due to a special cause versus a systemic cause? If we're in the middle of adopting a new way of working, the temptation will always be to blame the new system for the problems that arise. Sometimes that tendency is correct, sometimes not. Learning to tell the difference requires theory. You have to be able to predict the outcome of the changes you make to tell if the problems that result are really problems.

startup teams require three structural attributes: scarce but secure resources, independent authority to develop their business, and a personal stake in the outcome.

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Internal or external, in my experience startup teams require three structural attributes: scarce but secure resources, independent authority to develop their business, and a personal stake in the outcome.

This is a classic case of "achieving failure"—successfully executing a flawed plan.

MÁS ALLÁ DEL «SITIO JUSTO EN EL MOMENTO ADECUADO» Hay un grupo de emprendedores famosos que ganaron millones porque parecían estar en el sitio justo en el momento adecuado. Sin embargo, por cada emprendedor con éxito que estaba en el sitio justo en el momento adecuado, hay muchos que también estaban en ese sitio y en ese momento, pero fracasaron.

Can you honestly say the environment(s) you are in will yield the kind of harvest you are expecting?

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame.

Hope is easy, but it catches no prey.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

The beginning is the promise of the end.

Good men's prayers are carried by the angelic mail; but many men's prayers evidently go by the demoniac route. They are never so bad as after they have prayed.

Success is full of promise till men get it; and then it is a last year's nest, from which the bird has flown.

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

How many fools have looked forward to the adventure that killed them.

As he brews, so shall he drink.

If you've got a squirt gun in your pocket, you may have to take it out. If you've got a bazooka, and people know you've got it, you may not have to take it out," he said. Sometimes market fears can be self-fulfilling, and a strong demonstration can avoid the worst outcomes. I was reminded of the military doctrine of "overwhelming force" as the way to prompt quick surrender and minimize casualties.

It usually results in better decisions,