Stephen Cambone Quotes

What gets measured, gets done.

I've got a lot of stats. I did a lot of stuff.

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

People care about performance and results above all else.

I come from a world where accountability and accomplishments matter, and where titles and rhetoric take a back seat to results.

You don't reward reaction; you reward results.

In the end, a man’s motives are secondary to his accomplishments.

Measure not dispatch by the times of sitting, but by the advancement of business.

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

The more Strategic Work you do, the more effective, productive, and joyful the Tactical Work becomes.

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

We have a very old saying in our household: 'Inspect what you expect.' You hold people accountable, and I use my business background for finding the most efficient and effective solutions to deliver the result we're looking for.

I feel many times we do all the hard work, but in the absence of smart work, we do not get the desired results.

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

Efficiency is anything that scores.

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

We are about getting things done. We are not about the blame game. We are not about making excuses.

It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.

Never confuse activity with results.

If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.

Speak little, do much.

We don't get paid for being busy, we get paid for being right.

We don't have time for tone. We have to go out and get the job done.

You get the job done or you don't.

Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about 'hard work' without having a corresponding result to show for it.