Quotes About Outcomes

Values, my dear grandchild, depend for their acceptance upon their success.

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

I'll take an ugly win over a pretty loss any day.

You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.

A rule of thumb is that the best investors focus on losers, and the winners take care of themselves.

I think I pick more winners than losers.

Winning covers a multitude of sins. If you play bad and you still win, everyone says that's the sign of a good ballclub. But when you play bad and you lose, all of a sudden you have problems and everyone wants to know why.

If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.

Physicians today, as human beings, are not exempt from the perverse economic pressures created by fee-for-service regimes to see more patients for shorter appointments and order more tests and procedures. If the incentives were changed to pay to foster better health outcomes, I am convinced physician behavior would change over time.

The nice thing about baseball is that all of the possible outcomes are known - it's not quite as messy as the real world. That makes the game an excellent playground for probability.

The most compelling reason to work on your culture? Culture produces results.

It's one thing to get feedback, it's quite another to act on it. When it comes to feedback, the real prize is won when you use it to get better results, strengthen relationships, and achieve better outcomes all around.

We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail.

Don't waste time defending your intentions. History will judge you by the outcomes of your actions

Planning is deciding your destination and setting your sail so you achieve the outcomes and arrive at your intended destination in the shortest possible time.

Questions control how you think, and thinking is the root contributor to the results and outcomes of your life

Planning is the process of identifying how best to use your resources to achieve your outcomes.

With success, if you don't plan and just take each day as it comes, there will come failure.

Profit is a by-product of success, focus on success not on profit.

A lot depends on the small things

If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.

Things that will someday work out well start out well. Things that will never work start out bad and stay that way.

You have a bad habit of listing anything that can go wrong, Volger. I have always considered that a good habit

the threat to good collective outcomes doesn't come only from free riders and predators, as mainstream social sciences teach us, but also from well-organized norms of kakonomics, which regulate exchanges for the worse.