Achieving Quotes

• I learnt a lesson that you mustn't worry what people think if you are achieving your objective.

  

  Michael Ashcroft
  • People
  • Achieving
  • Learnt

• There is nothing simple or dull in achieving the transparent page. Vulgar ostentation is twice as easy as discipline. When you realise that ugly typography never effaces itself, you will be able to capture beauty as the wise men capture happiness by aiming at something else.

  

  Beatrice Warde
  • Happiness
  • Beauty
  • Discipline

• A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of justice is to fail to comprehend the process of achieving full victory.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Justice
  • Victory
  • Achieving

• Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.

  

  Jules Michelet
  • Goal
  • Nothing
  • Achieving

• There are some jobs that you go for because achieving them would take your career in a direction that you would like it to go, but mostly, I want to play the roles and have had the great good fortune and opportunities to play some fantastic roles and been very, very fortunate.

  

  Essie Davis
  • Career
  • Jobs
  • Opportunities

• Value innovation requires companies to orient the whole system toward achieving a leap in value for both buyers and themselves.

  

  W. Chan Kim
  • Innovation
  • System
  • Companies

• From working with Ralph Lauren, I started to understand what it meant to build a brand. There were times when I was working there that it seemed so repetitive. At the time, I didn't understand what was happening. But when I stepped out of it, I realized what he was doing was achieving a signature look and reiterating that. That's why when you think about a polo shirt you think about Ralph - he owns that garment.

  

  Simon Spurr
  • Understand
  • Working
  • Achieving

• The method entails deliberating competently about all alternative courses of action which may or may not conduce to achieving your goals, attempting to anticipate the consequences of each course of action, and then choosing and sticking to one.

  

  Edith Hall
  • Action
  • Choosing
  • Alternative

• Instead of envying what others have, decide what YOU want out of life and focus on achieving it.

  

  Beverly Engel
  • Focus
  • Decide
  • Achieving

• My priorities are still competing and achieving at the highest level, certainly. But to take a deep breath, or to try to enjoy the company of those around me, that's something that I'm trying to be aware of as much as possible.

  

  Nathan Adrian
  • Enjoy
  • Priorities
  • Achieving

• Take a look at your own heart, and you will soon find out what has stuck to it and where your treasure is. It is easy to determine whether hearing the Word of God, living according to it, and achieving such a life gives you as much enjoyment and calls forth as much diligence from you as does accumulating and saving money and property.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Money
  • Heart
  • Treasure

• Letters do love one another. However, due to their anatomical differences, some letters have a hard time achieving intimacy.

  

  Ellen Lupton
  • Differences
  • Intimacy
  • Letters

• If there's anything in life you consider worthwhile achieving - go for it. I was told many times to forget show business - I had nothing going for me. But I pursued it, anyway. Voila!

  

  Isabel Sanford
  • Business
  • Consider
  • Achieving

• Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them. “Focus on your potential instead of your limitations.

  

  Alan Loy McGinnis
  • Goals
  • Focused
  • Achieving

• I like working hard and achieving things, so determined, independent, and a nice guy.

  

  Phil Collen Def Leppard
  • Independent
  • Working
  • Achieving

• I really hope that more and more companies will become much better at achieving and maintaining outside-in. I hope that we will see more and more truly outside-in corporations and that those organizations will remain outside-in corporations over time.

  

  Barbara Bund
  • Hope
  • Corporations
  • Organizations

• We need financial measurements for sure—but we don’t need them for their own sake. We need them for two different reasons. One is control; knowing to what extent a company is achieving its goal of making money. The other reason is probably even more important; measurements should induce the parts to do what’s good for the organization as a whole.

  

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  • Goal
  • Reasons
  • Making Money

• The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Danger
  • Aim
  • Achieving

• I reach for my briefcase, take out a yellow legal pad and take a pen from my coat pocket. Then I make a list of all the items people think of as being goals: cost-effective purchasing, employing good people, high technology, producing products, producing quality products, selling quality products, capturing market share. I even add some others like communications and customer satisfaction. All of those are essential to running the business successfully. What do they all do? They enable the company to make money. But they are not the goals themselves; they’re just the means of achieving the goal.

  

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  • Money
  • Business
  • Technology

• The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it.

  

  Simon Travaglia
  • Denial
  • Achieving
  • Barrier

• Labor, with its coarse raiment and its bare right arm, has gone forth in the earth, achieving the truest conquests and rearing the most durable monuments. It has opened the domain of matter and the empire of the mind. The wild beast has fled before it, and the wilderness has fallen back.... its triumphal march is the progress of civilization.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Progress
  • Civilization
  • Labor

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