John Hutton Quotes

Having decisions made not in midnight deals but in the light of objective evidence and after consulting those who will be affected should itself provide some reassurance that the EU is trying to reform itself.

Prime Minister Modi keeps challenging the system to keep performing better and better. He sets aggressive targets, and the whole system has to act.

I believe you accomplish what you measure.

Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.

For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past down to people without bothering to involve people, listen to their views or give them information about what we are doing and why.

I like to think I set aspirational but reasonable goals and encourage my team to achieve them.

Priorities are the yearly goals that I'm most interested in achieving, then they become operationalized through weekly goals.

If you're going to be successful, you better have a goal, you better find really good people, better understand where all the money's coming from. And you better measure the living daylights out of it.

One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed.

When money follows results - we will get more results for our money.

And I believe in having an administration that has clearly defined goals, objectives and time lines such that it and its people can be held accountable.

We've had public hearings. We've had interim reports, which our statute has encouraged us to provide to the public. We have brought the public along with us, trying to make as much available as possible over time.

What you measure and reward is what you're going to get.

If you don't measure yourself by achievement, how are you going to set achievement levels for other people?

Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.

I think if you set yourself specific goals, that's quite a lot of pressure.

My view is that targets, properly constructed and applied across public services have been fundamental to past successes and will be an essential part of sustaining progress into the future.

Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top.

If we want to truly regain the public's trust, we can provide greater accountability and transparency with a simple step. Let's start by communicating to our constituents about the votes we take.

What gets measured, gets done.

We cover Congress only when it gets to the final vote on something, too late for the public to respond.

I never judge myself according to the expectations of others. I judge myself by the jobs I've been given over the years and by the extent to which I succeeded in those jobs.

Women politicians tend to lead by being accountable for results. We focus on goals and outcomes. You can't get by on just swagger.

My job is not to make decisions but to set stretch objectives and help our managers work out how to reach them.

I've always been a 'small goals' kind of guy.