Thomas Kaplan Quotes

But having set myself these goals, I had to work really hard to achieve them.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.

Success isn't something you achieve by accident, but rather by design.

Too many athletes don't have the ability to set a goal and then carefully go towards it.

A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.

The world's most successful entrepreneurs play hard, but they work even harder.

In every aspect of life, have a game plan, and then do your best to achieve it.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

If you really know... what you want and how to get there, then everything else really falls into place.

If you want to achieve what you dream of achieving, whatever it may be, you're going to have to earn it.

One man of tolerable Abilities may work great Changes, and accomplish great Affairs among Mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and … makes the execution of that same plan his sole Study and Business.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

I'm a big fan of intention. That's because I have learned first-hand the power of setting my intention on my goal and making all decisions based off of that intention.

I always set small goals and work towards them to achieve them.

The most valuable advice I can give is plan for your success. Write down your ideal goal, creating checkpoints for yourself along the way that align with the end goal. Set up rewards for achieving both little victories and big ones.

In order to get to where I want to be, I have to do the right things off the field, first.

Every goal that you will ever pursue will require a plan of action. Whether you are pursuing your life’s destiny or striving to obtain a particular goal, you must be able to see things as you desire them to be.

There are many things I want, and the only way I will get them is to keep my head down, listen to the right people and work hard

Whatever you can think, you can create; just have a very clear vision... Once you have your snapshot, work on filling in the blanks to get to that place.

But the 3% who have taken the time and exercised the discipline to decide on a destination and to chart a course sail straight and far across the deep oceans of life, reaching one port after another and accomplishing more in just a few years than the rest accomplish in a lifetime.

You can not achieve an aim unless you have a method.

The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it. We apply these skills in business, yet when it comes to ourselves, we rarely apply them.

To achieve a goal, a dream, a wish, you must plan it out for success!