Suzan DelBene Quotes

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.

We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.

If you got it, ask yourself why and try to repeat the action. If you failed, ask yourself why and try to learn from the experience.

You have to know how to score.

As always, testing can only give you ideas on where you are. And it can also mislead you.

Unfortunately, results are the only thing that some people look at, but there is more to defining success than just stats.

Of course you always wish your stats were a little bit better.

When we don't win, we have to draw conclusions and assess our mistakes. Things can always be improved.

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

I've done some good work and some not-good work.

You need to make mistakes in rehearsal because that's how you find out what works and what doesn't.

I am comfortable giving people direction. If something is not good enough, my job is to find a way to help them learn from their mistake, and understand that next time I expect better.

Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.

Every time you find something that doesn't work, you're a step closer to what does work.

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

We simply must do better.

We want to learn all the game and play the best way and take to our advantage.

When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

Mayors are judged by results.

Support what works and stop supporting what does not work.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

When we make progress and get better at something, it is inherently motivating. In order for people to make progress, they have to get feedback and information on how they're doing.

I'm process-orientated. Awards, by their nature, are results-orientated.