Dave Ramsey Quotes

Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top.

A tough manager will have realistic quotas for his employees that he keeps to himself and aggressively stretch quotas, anywhere from ten percent higher to a lot more, which he imposes on his staff. If his people miss the stretch numbers but exceed the realistic goals, he's happy. If he's a superb manager, he knows how far they can stretch without breaking.

For wellbeing to take hold, it's got to be something that individual team members are getting excited about in their own lives. It can't be something that a company is forcing top-down through hierarchical structures.

George W. Bush’s idea of leadership is, “I lead; you follow.”

After accepting the captaincy at the beginning of the 1998 season, I immediately set high but attainable goals for the West Indies cricket team and myself.

If you hire great people, and they're all self-motivated, then you can get by without a lot of structure.

You must ask, "What do we mean by great results?" Your goals don't have to be quantifiable, but they do have to be describable. Some leaders try to insist, "The only acceptable goals are measurable," but that's actually an undisciplined statement. Lots of goals-beauty, quality, life change, love-are worthy but not quantifiable. But you do have to be able to tell if you're making progress.

I don't think goal setting is an important basis for a retail business. Most of the time goal setting puts too much energy and attention on being someplace else, instead of helping you appreciate where you are.

Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas.

With your goal you make the one.

Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people.

You have to stick to your goals of progress.

Companies don't have ideas; only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds and loyalty and trust they develop between each other. What matters is the mortar, not just the bricks.

You're still going to win with preparation and dedication and plain old desire. If you don't have genuine desire, you won't be dedicated enough to prepare properly.

The moment you put a deadline on your dream,it becomes a goal.

I keep a notebook of the things I need to get done in a day, week, month along with my overarching goals. Whenever I have a couple moments on set or on a plane, I work on ticking off my to-do list.

Without goals, training has no direction.

I'd say to myself: "This is my dream, this is my wish." Because a wish is more than a wish. It is a goal. It is something your conscious and subconscious can help make reality.

My goal is not to fail fast. My goal is to succeed over the long run. They are not the same thing.

I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish.

The goals you don't set reveal the dreams you don't do.

Correct observation followed by meticulous deduction and the precise visualization of goals is vital to the success of any enterprise.

Focus on what it is that you want, set a realistic goal. Start setting goals that you feel you can accomplish. Don't try to go right to the top in one leap. Every time you accomplish a goal you develop the strength and wisdom to accomplish the next one.

A wish has been defined as a 'goal with no energy behind it.' Hope is not a strategy.

No goal is too high if we climb with care and confidence.