Quotes About Results

Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.

My wife says [parenting] is a test of your capacity to deal with disorder and unpredictability -- a test you can't study for, and one whose results aren't always reassuring.

anger in a leader rarely produces good results.

Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that workin' for you?

If we don't send people to Washington who, first of all, have done something more than talk for a living - which is what many politicians have done - nothing gets done.

I think Newt Gingrich has a proven track record of changing Washington and getting results.

While Washington pays lip service to the challenges facing small businesses, it repeatedly chooses its own expansion over results. In effect, government has become a huge silent partner in all businesses, often taking a majority of the profits and forcing many unprofitable business decisions without the risk that it will be fired.

There's a lot of complacency in philanthropy. People figure organizations are trying to do good, and that's enough, even if the results aren't there. But that's wasteful and inefficient. It crowds out better programs.

Did you know there's a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy - running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything - is the same as wasting your time? It's frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort!

You don't need a big close, as many sales reps believe. You risk losing your customer when you save all the good stuff for the end. Keep the customer actively involved throughout your presentation, and watch your results improve.

Going forward, we are mindful of the challenges we face in the competitive retail landscape, but we have demonstrated that our concept of building compelling brands that focus on the customers' lifestyles can produce superior results. We will not waver from that concept.

As long as I'm getting waves and having fun, the results tend to take care of themselves.

The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community - and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.

In some ways, Herbert Hoover can be considered a millennial in spirit: young at the turn of the century, aware of America's past but deeply committed to building its future. His greatest passion and highest calling was service to others, and he measured his life's successes not in dollars and votes but in results achieved.

Invest in a trainer. You see the progress so quickly, and you push yourself in new ways.

Science is objective. And in my view we cannot take any experimental results seriously except in the light of good explanations of them.

I have a lot of respect for Ali Karimi and appreciate his football but we cannot get desired results with big names. It won't work.

Weak arms don't cause you to lose games. When you hit, be sure to get on base. Then no one will care about a weak arm.

I prefer to be favourites on the pitch; not with words.

It's better not to talk but to act on the pitch.

I don't want to talk too much. I want to show it on the pitch.

We win more business, not because of pitching but because clients say, 'We like the work you're doing.'

I had a very detailed retirement plan, and I feel like I've met every aspect of it: a lot of golf, a lot of carbs, a lot of fried food, and some booze, occasionally - I've been completely committed... The results have shown.

My feeling was, you plant some seeds. If they grow, great; if they don't, you don't take it personally. Not my problem; I just kept planting. Just like a farmer.