Outcome Focus Quotes

Women often focus more on delivery - what is the outcome going to be rather than what are the interactions people have in order to get there.

To be efficient means getting the job done in a smart, resourceful and timely way. To be effective means getting the right job done well, efficiently or not.

Take care to make things turn out well. Some people scruple more over pointing things in the right direction than over successfully reaching their goals. The disgrace of failure outweighs the diligence they showed. A winner is never asked for explanations.

You cannot fail, you can only produce results.

The person who loves the process has a much greater chance of success than the person who loves the outcome.

I believe you accomplish what you measure.

Buy what's deliverable, not what could be.

I always ask myself, what do I need to prove? I won the fight.

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

We've seen, time and again, when people focus on the outcome rather than what needs to be done to achieve a desirable result, then the wheels fall off.

...to win by one is enough.

I would rather stay positive and get 50 percent good results, than stay negative and get 100 percent bad results!

What I want out of tennis is not necessarily just winning.

We learned that very few people care how you accomplish something. Instead, these people care more about whether you create value for your end user.

People (political and military leaders) much prefer to speak of what they are going to do rather than what the outcome will be.

What signifies the ladder, provided one rise and attain the end?

If you start out trying to achieve a specific thing - like doing stadium shows or going into the studio and doing an album - the end result is what counts.

All I really try to do is whatever hitter gets in there, I just try to get him out in as few pitches as possible.

I don't think I'll get the credit I deserve, but I didn't get into this game for credit. I got into this game to be the greatest welterweight ever. If I keep knocking them out one by one, I think that will happen.

I don't want to think results, I don't want to think positions. I just want to come in, do my job, and we'll see where we end up. I think that's the best way to look at it, because then you start focusing on the outcome rather than focusing on the work that it takes to get to that outcome.