Willie Brown Quotes

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

I'm not arrogant enough to think that I will be in a job through anything. Any manager will tell you that you have to win games, and you have to get results. You have to perform.

You get judged on your results.

We must measure what leads to results, not simply what is easy to measure.

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.

The mayor of New York is the chief executive of the city. It is a complex organization and it requires the requisite skills to understand how to be the leader of the people and manage the government of N.Y.

Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.

Dick Grasso would be a superb mayor of the City of New York. He loves the city.

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

I wasn’t hired to do well in the polls. I was hired to do a good job.

What gets measured, gets done.

In the end we are not going to be judged by how smart we are or by how much we care, but by what we have done.

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

At the end of the day, what people will give credit for is how Octobers turn out. That's how it works for Yankees managers.

One word that seems to connect both leaders and employees is: 'outcomes.' Built into that word is the implicit and explicit understanding and agreement that effective actions lead to good outcomes; ineffective actions lead to poor outcomes.

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

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

Leaders don't make excuses. They create results

Leaders, whether in the family, in business, in government, or in education, must not allow themselves to mistake intentions for accomplishments .

The victories are what I judge things on.

Results matter! They matter to your credibility.

In order to learn how to do something well, you have to fail sometimes. In order to fail, there has to be a measurement system. And that's the problem with most philanthropy - there's no measurement system. You give somebody some money to do something and most of the time you can really never measure whether you failed or succeeded in your judgment of that person or his ideas or their implementation.

Good ideas are the backbone of good government.

New Yorkers have real issues, and they deserve to have a mayor that is prepared to work with them to solve the challenges they have, reduce the problems that they have, and they deserve to have a mayor's race that is focused on them.

When they come here, what we are looking for them to do is step up to the plate, take responsibility and get the big innings, the centuries - or take a lead with the ball.