Quotes About Outcomes

Everybody manages differently and as far as I'm concerned the results are the only thing that counts.

I know when you're in the business of cover sports, you look for 60-minute games and a result. It's never that simple.

I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He's consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is about process and categorizations.

the right way to discuss IT performance and value is to focus on IT's contributions to business performance and business outcomes, and not on the performance of IT's machines.

the choices we made today were templates for the future.

We surrender the outcomes because we cannot control how people are going to respond to us and our work in the world.

While we have spent hundreds of billions of dollars to affect historical outcomes in Eurasia, we are curiously passive about what is happening to a country with which we share a long land border, that verges on disorder, and whose population is close to double that of Iraq and Afghanistan combined. Surely

After all, good intentions have little to do with positive outcomes

What do I really want for myself? What do I really want for others? What do I really want for the relationship? Once you've asked yourself what you want, add one more equally telling question: How would I behave if I really wanted these results?

that until you know for sure what the outcomes of a decision will be, you can't decide what to do.

We're very focused in on outcomes for government with respect to the amount of tax that goes in and the amount of expenditures that go out.

There's no difference between a pessimist who says, 'It's all over, don't bother trying to do anything, forget about voting, it won't make a difference,' and an optimist who says, 'Relax, everything is going to turn out fine.' Either way the results are the same. Nothing gets done.

Expectations define achievement.

Uncertainty is fearful to the ego, which always wants to control reality, but from the viewpoint of detachment, a constantly shifting and changing universe must remain uncertain. If things were certain, there could be no creativity. Therefore spirit works through surprises and unexpected outcomes. We achieve peace of mind only when we accept the wisdom of uncertainty.

Plans are invitation to disappointment.

You know," Ghastly said to Skulduggery, "for someone who hates plans, you've got an awful lot of them." "Well, yes," Skulduggery replied, "but really, the likelihood of any of them actually working is extraordinarily slim.

And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended. [Lat., Itidemque ut saepe jam in multis locis, Plus insciens quis fecit quam prodens boni.]

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Results matter! They matter to your credibility.

Life is 5% what happens, and 95% how you react.

Attitude drives actions. Actions drive results. Results drive lifestyles." That's a quote from America's business philosopher, Jim Rohn.

prioritizing the wrong outcomes: making participants feel good and giving them a good time. Simply stated, measuring entertainment value produces great entertainment, not change; measuring the wrong things crowds out assessing other, more relevant indicators

What I mean is that the people you cast in your life have very little to do with how things turn out.