Quotes About Goals

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

A lack of clarity could put the brakes on any journey to success."

Passion requires focused direction, and that direction must come from three other areas: your purpose, your talents, and your needs.

If you want to achieve some really big and interesting goals, you have to learn to fall in love with hard work.

People often overestimate what they can reasonably achieve in a year. But they vastly underestimate what they can achieve in 5 years.

Future is purely a mental construct — an illusion — because you never exist in the future, only in the present. By using a consistent, internally congruent vision of the future to make decisions day after day, you start to build momentum, and you'll ultimately achieve your goals.

You've got to have dreams to keep you going.

The challenge is that often when we think about success or think about our goals, we think it'll be good, and there will also be something which is bad. Therefore we have an inner conflict. If we can't iron out that conflict, we exhaust ourselves fighting against part of us that wants to do this, and part of us that doesn't want to do it. We're pushed and pulled in all kinds of directions by our own internal programs, many of which are unconscious to us.

The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.

I'd like to win the Masters and the PGA and complete the career Grand Slam.

Especially when you talk about the power of documentary filmmaking, you can't really have a slant; financially, you can't have a slant on the end goals.

Make no mistake about it. Bad habits are called 'bad' for a reason. They kill our productivity and creativity. They slow us down. They hold us back from achieving our goals. And they're detrimental to our health.

My mom always told me to set goals for myself. And slowly going through and checking those things off of my list, that feels like success to me.

I always say, 'To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!'

The list of what I want to do is so long, I would need a few lifetimes to achieve them. For instance, I would like to fly small planes, maybe over the Ganges one day.

I am a local economic revitalization strategist. But I am also a TV/radio host, and a small business owner. I find ways to use money more efficiently to realize positive goals for everyone.

As an entrepreneur and a small business owner, you are intimately familiar with goals. You've dreamed of the 'right' ones, you've projected 'real' ones for the banker and the investor, and, secretly, you've imagined how life can be if you can reach the ones you've set.

I put little goals in place every day, and I think if you can kind of keep to the small things it's easier to capture the big picture at the end.

For myself, I'm still little Joanna from the hood - from a small town in Poland, and I'm still having my goals, my dreams.

I make a little goal every day and work toward achieving it - even if it's the smallest little thing.

A guy wants a classy girl who is smart and has goals - someone that he wouldn't be afraid to bring home to his parents.

Whatever you want to do in life, just know that you will do it. Just believe in yourself. It might take so many years to finally accomplish that, but you have to work for it.

People often say I have so much energy, that I never stop; but that's what it takes to accomplish your goals.

I'm not one of those actresses that's going to feel like I never achieved my dreams and goals and just get disgruntled and hate everything about the business. I've had so much fun.