Quotes About Results

Effort means nothing. Execution is everything.

Put a little bit more in, get so much more out".

We fix things. Do you understand that? We don't analyze things. We don't discuss things. We don't wring our hands and cry about things. We fix them! If somebody wants to be analyzed they can see a shrink. When they come to the Department of Orthopedics at the Mayo Clinic they want only one thing: they want to be fixed. "Now get the hell out of here and go fix things. And I better not get any more reports of touchy-wouchy, hand-holding sessions in this department.

We live in a fast-paced, demanding, results-oriented world. New technologies place vast quantities of information at our fingertips in nanoseconds. We want problems solved instantly, results yesterday, answers immediately. We are exhorted to forget "ready, aim, fire" and to shoot now and shoot again. Leaders are expected to be decisive, bold, charismatic, and visionary—to know all the answers even before others have thought of the questions.

Here's the main point: if you have an activity where the results are nearly all skill, you don't need a large sample to draw reasonable conclusions.

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.

To Trump, winning was always paramount. "If I don't win, what have I done?

That was the problem with money: What people did with it had consequences, but they were so remote from the original action that the mind never connected the one with the other.

The law of intended consequences," she said. "That's what I call it anyway. When you look for what you expect to find, invariably you'll find it.

Persistence is the ability to maintain action regardless of your feelings. When you work on any big goal, your motivation will wax and wane like waves hitting the shore. Sometimes you'll feel motivated; sometimes you won't. But it's not your motivation that will produce results — it's your action. Persistence allows you to keep taking action even when you don't feel motivated to do so, and therefore you keep accumulating results.

In business, words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Scientists are knowledge capitalists who produce scientific papers that report the results of experiments conducted to test (and usually support) the hegemonic theories that reinforce the status quo.

Speculation is looked upon as being so much more risky than other avocations cause its results are more sudden and startling, though not one whit more disastrous. Statistics show that ninety-five out of one hundred men fail in mercantile life. The proportion is not greater among speculators: quicker action is obtained whether it be favorable or unfavorable, and it does not take five or ten years' time to find that you are playing a losing game."7

trying to win without consideration, plan, or clear goals had, in the course of the administration's first nine months, resulted in almost nothing but losses.

Your organization is perfectly designed to produce the results it's producing.

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

In any case, it wouldn't affect the results at all, but that phrase the balance of power always sounds impressive in conversation, as if you'd been reading Clausewitz and Sun Tzu. I

Si la ciencia ha de avanzar, lo que necesitamos es la capacidad de experimentar, honestidad a la hora de informar de los resultados (los resultados han de difundirse sin que nadie diga cómo le hubiera gustado que fueran los resultados) y finalmente, una cosa importante, la inteligencia para interpretar los resultados.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Even with a well-intentioned and highly communicative team, it is possible that the results of an iteration could be found worthless when shown to the broader organization or external users at the conclusion of the iteration.

Strength will grow from the heart, blossom as results, and wither in others' hearts as seeds.

Ideological and political intolerance, even with the best and most sincere intentions, produces results that are the direct opposite of those intended.

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.