Quotes About Results

Good intentions are no excuse for incompetence. And the manager who believes that social consciousness is a substitute for managing his business—or his hospital or his university—so that it produces the results for the sake of which it exists, is either a fool or a knave or both.

Effective executives focus on outward contribution. They gear their efforts to results rather than to work.

Effective executives concentrate on the few major areas where superior performance will produce outstanding results.

Exploiting opportunities produces results.

What does the situation require? Given my strengths, my way of performing, and my values, how can I make the greatest contribution to what needs to be done? And finally, What results have to be achieved to make a difference?

When people in organizations focus only on their position, they have little sense of responsibility for the results produced when all positions interact. Moreover, when results are disappointing, it can be very difficult to know why. All you can do is assume that "someone screwed up.

If managers focus only on short-term results, they are often justified in continuing to intervene to sustain results.

We are impatient for results.

you create the results in life that you believe you deserve.

Lip service to Christian ethics was not good enough as an argument for this. Either the heart of the world must be changed by a real obedience to the gospel of Christ or Christianity must be abandoned for a new creed which would give better results between men and nations

But above all I wish to designate the following as the most important among the numerous questions which can be asked with regard to the axioms: To prove that they are not contradictory, that is, that a definite number of logical steps based upon them can never lead to contradictory results.

The lesson I had learned for my pain turned out to be modest and simple: the best intentions can lead to the worst results. I had believed in the left because of the good it had promised. Now I learned to judge it by the evil it had done.

Thus, the proclaimed goal of affirmative action advocates is to level the playing field. It is defined this way to highlight the left's claim that traditional civil rights solutions have failed to achieve real equality, by which is meant equality of results. Traditional civil rights solutions were focused on the fairness of the institutional process, the elimination of legal barriers to political power and individual opportunity.

You can choose how you want to live. You are free to choose the actions, but not the results. You are free to have your kicks, but not to avoid the kickbacks. You are free to make choices, but not to avoid the consequences.

We're about winning and accountability.

I support accountability.

A Left that does nothing achieves nothing.

My actual passion is getting things done.

I've always thought that the best answers you can give are answers on the pitch, and I hope to continue doing just that, which is the most important thing.

Apologies are great, but they don't really change anything. You know what does? Action.

Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.

When I arrive people don't know me very well, but it's about the work we do and the way the team play.

I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.

When the results of your behavior meet your needs over time, you experience inner peace.