Quotes about Achievement

When employees at all levels share a common understanding of where the company is headed, what success looks like, whom their competitors are, and what needs to be achieved to claim victory, there is a remarkably low level of wasted time and energy and a powerful sense of traction.

An unrelenting focus on specific objectives and clearly defined outcomes is a requirement for any team that judges itself on performance.

The questions were, 'What did you accomplish?' 'What will you accomplish next?' 'How can you improve?'" "That's it?" "Not quite. The question on the back was, 'Are you embracing the values?

But no matter what is going on, there has to be something ultimately at stake. A prize, survival, sanity, success, even peace of mind.

You need rich people in your society not so much because in spending their money they create jobs, but because of what they have to do to get rich. I'm not talking about the trickle-down effect here. I'm not saying that if you let Henry Ford get rich, he'll hire you as a waiter at his next party. I'm saying that he'll make you a tractor to replace your horse.

To be happy I think you have to be doing something you not only enjoy, but admire.

In reality, wealth is measured by what one delivers, not how much effort it costs. If I paint someone's house, the owner shouldn't pay me extra for doing it with a toothbrush.

Wealth is what you want, not money.

If you conquer yourself, then you conquer the world

Go and get your things,' he said. 'Dreams mean work.

The roller-coaster is my life; life is a fast, dizzying game; life is a parachute jump; it's taking chances, falling over and getting up again; it's mountaineering; it's wanting to get to the very top of yourself and feeling angry and dissatisfied when you don't manage it

the reward of our work is not what we get, but what we become