Quotes About Achievement

Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.

eight, nine kilometers—more than halfway!

Strategic direction encompasses mission, vision, and strategy. Mission is about what will be achieved, vision is about why people should feel motivated to perform at a high level, and strategy is about how resources should be allocated and decisions made to accomplish the mission. If you keep in mind the what, the why, and the how, you won't get lost in debates about what a mission is, what a vision is, and what a strategy is.

Secure early wins. Early wins build your credibility and create momentum.

Mission is about what will be achieved, vision is about why people should feel motivated to perform at a high level, and strategy is about how resources should be allocated and decisions made to accomplish the mission.

FIGURE I-4 Key transition milestones

successful in rapidly scaling the learning curve, building key relationships, and getting early wins,

Third, based on your first-cut conclusions about strategic priorities, identify a few ways to achieve early wins and build momentum.

Why waste a life in search of an epitaph?

Everyday is a day in which to excel

I've been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever.

But the truth is that what so often passes for American history is really a record of white priorities or conquests set down as white achievement.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."2

Capitalists say that all that matters is the bottom line. In fact, all that matters is the top line... the excellence and quality of the human race.

Ten percent is the golden number – the number that changes the world. Be part of that ten percent. Be a hero. Let future generations talk about you

Meritocracy is about building heaven on earth, about transforming humans into Gods. If that's not your vision, meritocracy is certainly not for you.

Meritocracy is a sacred cause, not profane. It is numinous. Meritocracy is about the glory and highest aspirations of the human race, not about letting people run around doing their own thing regardless of everyone else, and fretting over which hamburger to choose. If that's all you want from life, you might as well go and live in the jungle.

Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done ' I know I'm close to success.

Follow your dreams, because you wouldn't want it so bad if you couldn't have it. The universe gives you these dreams because you can have them. If you're willing to work for it, you can have anything you want.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death." —Leonardo da Vinci

The talent for self-justification is surely the finest flower of human evolution, the greatest achievement of the human brain. When it comes to justifying actions, every human being acquires the intelligence of an Einstein, the imagination of a Shakespeare, and the subtlety of a Jesuit.

Only Robinson Crusoe got it all done by Friday!

Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

Ordinary Wizarding Level