Ken Blanchard Quotes

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

Knowing where you are going takes the uncertainty out of getting there

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

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

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

If you have a vision for something, things are navigable. If it gets fuzzy, then obstacles become much more formidable.

You can have the best product in the world, you can have the best motivation in the world, you can have best education in the world, you can have all the money in the world - but if you don't have direction, you'll never go anywhere.

All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.

I'm staying focused and clear about what I want in life, and I'm going to get it, man.

I feel like I know where I'm going. And I like where I'm going.

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?

Focus your vision by giving it a goal.

No wind makes for him that hath no intended port to sail into.

If one has no compass, when one doesn't know where one stands and where one wants to go, one can deduce that one has no leadership or interest in shaping events.

You will have many more goals in the years ahead. But do not confuse a goal with a purpose.

People don't follow a leader but follow a vision - a vision of what the future looks like and how their work helps them along that path.

I think it helps if you have a clear vision of what you want.

When you know what you want, you know where you want to go.

I'm very objective driven, so for me it's very important to know who I'm fighting, when I'm fighting, and roughly the direction I'm working in. It gives me that little extra push to do what I need to do to get the sessions, to work towards something.

One does not advance when one walks toward no goal, or - which is the same thing - when his goal is infinity.

The fuel of ambition is not the problem; it is the focus of ambition that frees or betrays us.

When you have a clear vision of your goal, it's easier to take the first step toward it.