Michael Crichton Quotes

People care about performance and results above all else.

It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.

Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.

The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning.

I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.

I come from a world where accountability and accomplishments matter, and where titles and rhetoric take a back seat to results.

Forget about style; worry about results.

You hire a chief executive, pay him, and hold him accountable after a year or two. The time for so-called honorary jobs is over. What Pakistan squash needs is results, and that can only be achieved by professionals.

It doesn't matter what your pedigree is, who your family is or what degrees you have. What really matters is how you perform your job and how you produce results. Whoever could do the best job, that's who the focus is on - and it definitely doesn't matter if I am a woman or a man.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

Well done is better than well said.

And so, it's not a thing of how many carries, but were you effective when you did carry.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

With sports, there's no entitlement on the field. It's about numbers. It's about results. It's about outcomes.

Support what works and stop supporting what does not work.

For too long the federal government has measured quantity, not quality: What it puts in rather than what it gets out.

Judge us not by the rhetoric; judge us by the results.

All that I care about are results.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

My success rate speaks for itself.

My aim is to deliver results.

Everybody manages differently and as far as I'm concerned the results are the only thing that counts.

If you are good enough, you should play.

The main thing for me - as a leader, anyway, is that you perform well. That's most of the battle.

An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.