Quotes About Results

It's a question of methods. Everybody wants results, but nobody wants to do what they have to do to get them done.

Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better.

Let's have Michael Bloomberg run the whole thing. Did a great job on this stuff in New York. If you want to spend at least what we already are on the poor but actually get results, go for it!

You know, I feel like if I don't change something, then the results maybe are going to continue the way that they have. That for me is not something that I want to really be a part of.

Restaurants want to be judged on their intentions - not the results.

People who are on a spiritual quest don't think, they simply want results.

Politics is like sausages, you don't want to watch either being made.

War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state.

Limited expectations yield only limited results.

inexhaustible effort that philosophers devote to a subject that brings no results.

We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind?....... We make our own destiny.

To work we have the right, but not to the fruits thereof:" Leave the fruits alone. Why

I think I'm decisive, and I like to get things done quickly. So if that comes across as intimidation, I'm sorry to hear it. But it's more in the interest of getting things done.

What the left says sounds very good but, in practice, it works out very badly.

Honest error in the face of complex and possibly intractable problems is a far more important source of bad results than are bad motives.

Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.

You reap what you sow, and sometimes the soil can be very dry, and sometimes it will bring a lot of rain.

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

When I started working with NASA in 1989 as part of a mission to send spacecraft to Pluto, I knew it would take at least 10-15 years to see results of my efforts.

Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. If you find yourself lacking in persistence, this weakness may be remedied by building a stronger fire under your desires.

am also trying to emphasize another point, namely, that both success and failure are largely the results of habit!

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.

The world does not pay men for that which they know. It pays them for what they DO, or induce others to do.

deeds, and not words, are what count most'.