Goal Orientation Quotes

Smart people focus on the right things.

The best way to make money is not to have money as your primary goal. I've seen great people come into the business world primarily motivated to make money. Almost without exception they failed.

Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.

What you have to have is very smart, motivated, dedicated, and focused engineers and focus them on the right goal.

I'll put it to you this way: I never, ever think about the things that I get involved with on a macro means-to-an-ends scale.

The great thing in this word is not so much where we stand, as in which direction we are moving.

Success is achieved and maintained by those who keep trying with positive mental attitude. What you try for is up to you.

The ends justifies the means.

The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.

Build a life, don't live one...

Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been.

Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.

In our marriage, the success of our athletic dreams comes before everything. 'Hey do you want to watch a movie?' 'No, I have a hard workout tomorrow.'

Sometimes I get really down on myself for not having the exact career I want, but it's ok as long as you know what you want and you're going towards that. Accept it's going to be a different path than you thought in the first place.

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

Your direction is more important than your speed.

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.

When I do something I give everything, so it has to be something that I really want to go for.

Think about your goals and review them daily. Every morning when you begin, take action on the most important task you can accomplish to achieve your most important goal at the moment.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

A leader in any place must ask himself who he identifies with, with which values, and towards what goals.

Valuing the road over the goal was a Taoist goal in itself.

We should never change our minds about where we are going, but always be curious about different ways to get there.

I'm not really a numbers guy, but I always have a goal in mind.

I'm a very objective-driven bloke, so to have a goal in mind and to have something to do is very important to me.