J. J. Watt Quotes

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals.

In business, I believe that if you focus only on the journey, you'll miss the whole point of the enterprise. There has to be a goal, an end game of some kind; otherwise, you're just spinning your wheels. Yes, the journey is important, but the destination is important, too.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Without having a goal, it's difficult to score.

If you don't know where you're going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

It's good to have a goal.

I work best when I have a goal or direction to work towards.

Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.

You have to know where you were going in order to get there.

What matters is where you want to go. Focus in the right direction!

Dream big work hard.

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.

All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient.

Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

For me, seeing the target and not seeing the target doesn't make any difference.