Quotes About Goals

Sometimes, you follow your dreams. I say to the young people, 'If you have a dream, chase it.'

I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations.

In the twentieth century, economics lost the desire to articulate its goals: in their absence, the economic nest got hijacked by the cuckoo goal of GDP growth.

echo those of Kuznets, the hallowed creator of national income itself. 'Distinctions must be kept in mind,' he advised back in the 1960s, 'between quantity and quality of growth, between its costs and return, and between the short and the long term . . . Objectives should be explicit: goals for "more" growth should specify more growth of what and for what.

Objectives should be explicit: goals for "more" growth should specify more growth of what and for what.'17

Gregory Mankiw's widely used contemporary textbook, Principles of Economics, the definition has become even more concise. 'Economics is the study of how society manages its scarce resources,' it declares—erasing the question of ends or goals from the page altogether.

What if we started economics not with its long-established theories but with humanity's long-term goals, and then sought out the economic thinking that would enable us to achieve them?

Negotiation scholars have observed this phenomenon so often we have a name for it: "escalation of commitment." People lose sight of their real goals in competitive situations and pay far too much money, spend too much time, or sacrifice too many other interests for the privilege of saying they have won.

Just remember, Every day of your lives, you must always be sure what you're fighting for.

Many of us have convinced ourselves that compromise is necessary to achieve our goals, that all of our goals are not attainable so we should eliminate the extraneous, prioritize our desires, and accept less than the moon.

Success at any endeavor on an elite level demands selfishness...Many of us have convinced ourselves that compromise is necessary to achieve our goals, that all of our goals are not attainable so we should eliminate the extraneous, proritize our desires, and accept less than the moon. But Denny refused to yield to that idea. He wanted his daughter and he wanted his racing career and he refused to give up one for the other.

In a highly formalized organization, individuals tend to be hyperfocused on their own, unit-specific goals. Everything else is a distraction. Unfortunately, the future seldom lines up with the org chart. Parochialism not only makes new opportunities hard to spot, but hard to resource. Unit leaders often feel they have insufficient resources to deliver on their own commitments, let alone someone else's. Share resources, and you risk missing your targets.

To be financially wealthy you must have a purpose for your life. In other words, without purpose, you'll never know when you have enough money, and you can never be financially wealthy.

It's not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?

Thinking big is essential to extraordinary results. Success requires action, and action requires thought. But here's the catch—the only actions that become springboards to succeeding big are those informed by big thinking to begin with. Make this connection, and the importance of how big you think begins to sink in.

Every day, without realizing it, we engage in all manner of activities that diminish our willpower. Willpower is depleted when we make decisions to focus our attention, suppress our feelings and impulses, or modify our behavior in pursuit of goals. It's like taking an ice pick and gouging a hole in our gas line. Before long we have willpower leaking everywhere and none left to do our most important work. So like any other limited but vital resource, willpower must be managed.

My goals are fueled by my dreams. I defend and protect those dreams from distractions and from interruptions from other people.

To-do lists inherently lack the intent of success. In fact, most to-do lists are actually just survival lists—getting you through your day and your life, but not making each day a stepping-stone for the next so that you sequentially build a successful life.

As a result, buying into The ONE Thing becomes difficult because we've unfortunately bought into too many others—and more often than not those "other things" muddle our thinking, misguide our actions, and sidetrack our success.

Thinking big is essential to extraordinary results. Success requires action, and action requires thought. But here's the catch—the only actions that become springboards to succeeding big are those informed by big thinking to begin with.

So, if you want to get the most out of your day, do your most important work—your ONE Thing—early, before your willpower is drawn down.

Napoleon Hill put it very well in the title of his famous book Think and Grow Rich.

Instead of a to-do list, you need a success list—a list that is purposefully created around extraordinary results.

If a list isn't built around success, then that's not where it takes you.