Quotes About Results

The more games I have as a manager the more I realise that there is only one thing that really matters - getting results and accumulating points.

The opening of the Frontier is not an engineering problem. It is not a money problem. It is a challenge to our ability to decide to make it happen and to think and act the right way to get the results we want, we need, we demand.

It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.

It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.

Good works? About the village, sir. Reading to the bedridden - chatting with the sick - that sort of thing, sir. We can but trust that good results will ensue. Yes, I suppose so, I said doubtfully. But, by gosh, if I were a sick man I'd hate to have a looney like young Bingo coming and gibbering at my bedside.

What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.

What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.

Continual intellectual study results in vanity and the false satisfaction of an undigested knowledge.

Words are pretty, but anyone can talk. Pay attention to the people who perform.

Self-doubt is common when our efforts fail to bring results. Failure is a rock in our shoe that nags us until we find relief. At first, failure to achieve our desired end will elicit careful scrutiny (What can I do better?) and resumed commitment (How can I try harder?). Success may be achieved—straight As, an athletic scholarship, perfect Sunday school attendance—but the real goal—a happy family, an end to the abuse, or relief from the pain—is always out of reach.

Of course companies need leaders who beam in on getting better results. But those results will be more robust in the long run when leaders don't simply tell people what to do or just do it themselves, but have an other focus: they are motivated to help other people be successful, too.

el ambiente representa casi un tercio de los resultados. Por tanto, es un impacto demasiado importante como para ignorarlo.

Leaders who display just the pacesetting or command style—or both—but not any others create a toxic climate, one that dispirits those they lead. Such leaders may get short-term results through personal heroics, like going out and getting a deal themselves, but do so at the expense of building their organizations.

Money is the consequence of doing the right things.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

I just don't believe in love at first sight anymore, even though I've based my whole career on the concept. In my experience, power, money and influence always attract the opposite sex. It's something that I've always exploited – with good results.

Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it.

Actions speak louder than meetings.

For each of our actions there are only consequences.

Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.

Your thoughts don't matter if they are not converted into actions.

The strangest of all the doctrines of the cult of competition, in which admittedly there must be losers as well as winners, is that the result of competition is inevitably good for everybody, that altruistic ends may be met by a system without altruistic motives or altruistic means.

Our actions, once we initiate them, seem to follow fixed and invariable laws, but only because we perceive their results through sense, which clothes all that it transmits in the dress of that causal law which our minds themselves have made.

If anything of the moment results — so much the better. And so much the more likely will it be that no one will want to see it.