Stretch Goals Quotes

Why shoot for the moon? It matters because when you try to do something radically hard, you approach the problem differently than when you try to make something incrementally better.

You have to raise the bar. Give yourself a challenge. Ask yourself, 'How can one make the impossible materialise?'

Set the kind of goals that will make something of you to achieve them.

I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle.

If you want to improve, you have to set high targets.

My job is not to make decisions but to set stretch objectives and help our managers work out how to reach them.

Expect more than others think possible.

Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

Goals should always be made to a point that will make us reach and strain.

If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

People need BHAGs - big hairy audacious goals.

You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential.

Set stretch goals. Don't ever settle for mediocrity. The key to stretch is to reach for more than you think is possible. Don't sell yourself short by thinking that you'll fail.

It is easier to motivate people to do something difficult than something easy.

Dream impossible dreams. When those dreams come true, make the next ones more impossible.

My expectation levels are probably higher than what's achievable. But I have to keep pushing the standards.

The best thing you can do is learn from those mistakes so that you continue to get better. That's the management style or leadership style I believe in, which is push people to their limit such that they can become better than they thought they could be. That certainly has helped me.

I'm open to any opportunity that challenges me.

We don't aim high enough with our goals. We all have more in us, and we are all capable of aiming higher.

I think when you get people who are really talented and you take them out of their comfort zone, you get a lot more out of them.

I like a role that is challenging. That's what I look for and I'm certainly always looking to move further and maybe push myself into a place that might be temporarily uncomfortable so that I might learn something.

If your dream sounds like a real stretch and everyone around you is looking at you like you have completely lost it, it might just be exactly what you need.

If the role is complicating and challenging enough for me to push me out of my comfort zone, then I get very excited.

Big results require big ambitions.

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.