Don Yaeger Quotes

Never confuse activity with accomplishment.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

The accurate measure of a human being is what he or she actually gets done.

Always focus on accomplishments rather than activities.

In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.

All that I care about are results.

The proof is in the results, and the proof will be in the ongoing ability to execute.

Nothing works like success.

At the end of the day, it's not really about the aces, it's about getting the job done.

Labels are irrelevant. It's the results.

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

People care about performance and results above all else.

What I do like is action, achievements, and results. Getting things done.

Don't ever be impressed with goal setting. Be impressed with goal getting.

If you don't execute on your plans, then you don't reach anywhere.

Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?

Goals are the links in the chain that connect activity to accomplishment.

You get the job done or you don't.

I don't mean to sound corny, but it's one word: results. If you get results, you can get anyone.

I don't think there's a lot of dispute for this. You can argue that we didn't get everything done that we wanted to get done, but I can make a really strong argument, and I think prove, that by almost every measure the country's better off now than when I started.

Forget about style; worry about results.

I think in terms of what I am able to accomplish and build.

You don't get results by focusing on results. You get results by focusing on the actions that produce results.

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.

Well done is better than well said.