Jahangir Khan Quotes

No expectations, no tension between goals and performance, no outrage, resolve or intention, no action, no results. There's only one way to get a government - and a nation - to stop drifting to low performance. That's to wake up and insist on higher standards.

Mayors are judged by results.

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

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

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

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

I'm easy. Very easy. I'll tell you why I am easy. If someone is no good, I get rid of them. It is no good being tough on somebody who can't do the job. If he can do the job, then there is no point in being tough with him.

For example, I wouldn't hesitate to sit somebody down if he wasn't performing, even if he was the No. 1 player in the world. I've been sat down before.

If I am incompetent, I am useless, the people of India will see that.

The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.

It doesn't matter what your pedigree is, who your family is or what degrees you have. What really matters is how you perform your job and how you produce results. Whoever could do the best job, that's who the focus is on - and it definitely doesn't matter if I am a woman or a man.

If a guy doesn't work hard and doesn't play well, he can't lead anything. All he is, is a talker.

When I arrived at IBM, there were 'Team' signs all around. I asked, 'How do people get paid?' They told me, 'We pay people based on individual performance.'

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

My job is to build that belief in every coach and every owner, that they can put the franchise in my hands and I can take it uphill from there. Obviously, everyone wants to be No. 1, but I'm not going to campaign. I'm just going to go out and show what I've got.

I want my work to be judged, not me.

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

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

I think you're only as good as the work that you do.

In every business, in every industry, management does matter.

What worries me is the professionalism of everything.

Officers who fail to correct errors or to praise excellence are valueless in peace and dangerous misfits in war.

Support what works and stop supporting what does not work.

What gets measured, gets done….Results measurement is now mainstreamed

The Prime Minister of this country should be 100 percent efficient at all time.