Quotes About Outcome

We are prone to blame decision makers for good decisions that worked out badly and to give them too little credit for successful moves that appear obvious only after the fact.

The worse the consequence, the greater the hindsight bias.

luck plays a large role in every story of success; it is almost always easy to identify a small change in the story that would have turned a remarkable achievement into a mediocre outcome.

The ultimate test of an explanation is whether it would have made the event predictable in advance. No story of Google's unlikely success will meet that test, because no story can include the myriad of events that would have caused a different outcome. The human mind does not deal well with nonevents.

A stupid decision that works out well becomes a brilliant decision in hindsight.

For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be in an absolute state about them - emotionally invested in the outcome and frightened not to watch what happens next.

My experience at Villa has been a failure.

The problem with tactical novelties that might lead to a manager being hailed as a hero is that if they do not come off they are the villain.

The Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump will undoubtedly leave millions of Americans dissatisfied about the outcome, conviction or not. What must not happen, however, is millions of Americans feeling that the process itself violated the letter and spirit of our Constitution.

There's risk in virtually everything you do. I tend to focus more on the reward channel.

Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.

Back when I was an idealistic 18-year-old on my way to Chicago, I might have believed that being on the side of virtue would guarantee a good outcome. These many years later, I know better.

once told Wendell that I'm a terrible decision maker, that often what I think I want doesn't turn out the way I'd imagined.

What people don't like to think about is that you can do everything right—in life or in a treatment protocol—and still get the short end of the stick. And when that happens, the only control you have is how you deal with that stick—your way, not the way others say you should.

There are two unpardonable sins in this world -- success and failure.

Thou seest, thou wicked varlet, now, what's come upon thee: thou art to continue, now, thou varlet; thou art to continue.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Sometimes what we see as a loss turns out in the end to be a gain, and sometimes a gain is a loss. I try not to be too swift to pass judgment on any situation, preferring instead to be patient and take the long view because I believe that in the end all things work together for good.

Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not.

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.

A couple of years ago, clients would expect to have to make an appointment with a lawyer in order to be told what legal services could help them with their problem. Today, clients expect that information to be free, given over the phone instantly, or, better yet, available on demand on a website. Clients don't want to pay you to understand their problem and work out what they need, they just care about the outcome.

Most clients are looking for a solution to a problem. They're interested in an outcome or result.

as if foreknowledge of an event could somehow buffer you from its reverbrations.