Achieving Objectives Quotes

When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.

The end is what you want and the means is how you get it.

Only when you have got a clear statement of what you want to achieve, do you ask yourself how you are going to achieve it. In the military we are taught never to go for a single answer, no matter how obvious that might be.

An undefined goal is unreachable.

You have to understand what it is you want, create a plan for what you want, and don't allow them to give you any less than what it is you want, and that's it.

The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal.

Goals convert vision into ENERGY.

Execute their airy purposes.

What is success? I think the most important thing is to achieve what you set out to achieve. Just being a CEO in itself is not success. I would not relate success to a title or a position. My career has had a level of serendipity all along. I've never planned anything out more than a few years.

When you develop a game plan to get what you want, you will develop a belief that you can get it.

Life is greater when I'm dealing with something than when I'm just dreaming away.

With greater confidence in yourself and your abilities, you will set bigger goals, make bigger plans and commit yourself to achieving objectives that today you only dream about.

With definite goals you release your own power, and things start happening.

We must be clear about where we’re going if we want anyone to help us get there.

Goals are new, forward-moving objectives. They magnetize you towards them.

Scoring comes naturally because every time I come off the pitch and I haven't got a goal, then I am not happy with my performance.

In order to institute action, it is not sufficient that the individual man have unachieved ends that he would like to fulfill. He must also expect that certain modes of behavior will enable him to attain his ends. A man may have a desire for sunshine, but if he realizes that he can do nothing to achieve it, he does not act on this desire.