Quotes About Outcomes

What is your understanding of the situation and its potential outcomes? What are your fears and what are your hopes? What are the trade-offs you are willing to make and not willing to make? And what is the course of action that best serves this understanding? The

What is your understanding of the situation and its potential outcomes? What are your fears and what are your hopes? What are the trade-offs you are willing to make and not willing to make? And what is the course of action that best serves this understanding?

people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don't, nothing will work out the way they want.

People who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don't. nothing will work out the way they want.

But who can foresee such things? None of us can predict the final outcomes of our actions, and few of us even try; most of us just do what we do to prolong a moment's pleasure or to stop the pain. And even when we act for the noblest reasons, the last link of the chain all too often drips with someone's blood.

A good life is the result of a thousand small choices and so is a bad one.

Don't judge a tree by its size, but by its fruit.

If we don't know what's going to happen, why should we be scared?" answered Bry. He went on to explain that good things could happen just as well as bad things. In fact, the odds were in favor of good things, since the missions were so well planned. So why be afraid? Why not be happy? "It's more likely something will go right. Don't worry about the bad until it happens.

Activity does not mean achievement

Most parents look back at the outcomes of past parenting decisions and, unhappy with the results, make adjustments for the future. The intriguing part of this whole equation was the stigma that seemed to go along with these changes or adaptations. Most parents don't advertise, "Here's where I messed up!" It's embarrassing! So they keep it to themselves. Sadly, their silence keeps other parents from learning from their mistakes.

For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with the mirage of inevitability, the assumption that different outcomes lay beyond the limits of the possible.

too many startup business plans look more like they are planning to launch a rocket ship than drive a car. They prescribe the steps to take and the results to expect in excruciating detail, and as in planning to launch a rocket, they are set up in such a way that even tiny errors in assumptions can lead to catastrophic outcomes.

Innovation accounting. To improve entrepreneurial outcomes and hold innovators accountable, we need to focus on the boring stuff: how to measure progress, how to set up milestones, and how to prioritize work. This requires a new kind of accounting designed for startups—and the people who hold them accountable.

The mathematics of probability enters when we seek a method for enumerating possible cases without actually counting them off

Like so many of the things parents do out of loving solicitude, putting pressure on girls to lose weight has no good outcomes and a lot of bad ones.

If you FAIL to PLAN. You PLAN to FAIL.

Of all the things I have learned since becoming a parent(and sometimes, it feels as if this might be everything I've learned), perhaps the hardest to accept is that it is selfish and possibly even dangerous to desire particular outcomes for our children.

the idea that free markets produce socially desirable outcomes even though each buyer and seller acts purely out of selfish motives.

Sometimes market fears can be self-fulfilling, and a strong demonstration can avoid the worst outcomes.

with results that are not meaningfully better and are often worse.

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.

There are some outcomes in finance we don't want, and government should regulate that.

While legislation obviously is political, we now have allowed regulation to become politicized, which we believe will likely lead to some bad outcomes.

Success, you know, is a relative thing.