Quotes About Achievement

Tell me about the most important accomplishments of your career." Look for more mentions of we than I.

tendency of team members to seek out individual recognition and attention at the expense of results

When employees at all levels share a common understanding of where the company is headed, what success looks like, whom their competitors are, and what needs to be achieved to claim victory, there is a remarkably low level of wasted time and energy and a powerful sense of traction.

Team Rewards By shifting rewards away from individual performance to team achievement, the team can create a culture of accountability. This occurs because a team is unlikely to stand by quietly and fail because a peer is not pulling his or her weight.

Every good organization specifies what it plans to achieve in a given period, and these goals, more than the financial metrics that they drive, make up the majority of near-term, controllable results. So, while profit may be the ultimate measure of results for a corporation, the goals and objectives that executives set for themselves along the way constitute a more representative example of the results it strives for as a team. Ultimately, these goals drive profit.

organizational health is relatively hard to measure, and even harder to achieve. It feels soft to executives who prefer more quantitative and reliable methods of steering their companies. It also entails a longer lead time to implementation than does a technical or marketing strategy, which yields more immediate results and gratification.

An unrelenting focus on specific objectives and clearly defined outcomes is a requirement for any team that judges itself on performance.

The ultimate test of a great team is results.

The questions were, 'What did you accomplish?' 'What will you accomplish next?' 'How can you improve?'" "That's it?" "Not quite. The question on the back was, 'Are you embracing the values?

I slept as the person in Plutarch that ran from Marathon to Athens without a pause would have slept if he had not fallen dead, the creature.

The more a victory cost, the more it was esteemed.

that mean in terms of weekly income?

Winning's never about what anyone else does. It's something that happens between you and yourself. You don't look to the left or the right. You just jump in the water and swim with everything you have. You swim for your life, Ma, and when you reach the finish line and look up, whoever you thought you were competing against is gone. Poof.

Winning's never about what anyone else does. It's something that happens between you and yourself.

Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.

Have you noticed how the cleverest people at school are not those who make it in life? People who are conventionally clever get jobs on their qualifications (the past), not on their desire to succeed (the future). Very simply, they get overtaken by those who continually strive to be better than they are.

Getting what you want means making the decisions you need to make to get what you want. Not the decisions those around you think you should make. Making the safe decision is full, predictable and elads nowhere new. The unsafe decision causess you to think and respond in a way you hadn't thought of. And that thought will lead to other thoughts which will help you achieve what you want. Start taking bad decisions and it will take you to a plce where others only dream of being.

Reality is not simply there, it does not simply exist: it must be sought out and won.

Making things . . . And making things work . . . That's where satisfaction is in this life.

Being able to flip up against a wall and start doing handstand pushups is cool.

if your training isn't gradually lessening the pain in your life, you're doing something wrong.

He'd actually done it! He leaned back into the microphone and whispered to the now silent cave: 'Come to the Cabaret!

But determination can make the miraculous possible.

Nobody's a natural. You work to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.