Tangible Results Quotes

Don't wait for perfection before you start. Start somewhere so you can have something tangible you can work to perfect.

We treasure what we can measure.

Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.

Faith does not protect you. Medicine and airbags... Those are the things that protect you. God does not protect you. Intelligence protects you. Enlightenment. Put your faith in something with tangible results. How long has it been since someone walked on water? Modern miracles belong to science. Computers, vaccines, space stations... Even the divine miracle of creation. Matter from nothing... In a lab. Who needs God? No! Science is God!

Words do not convince me; I must have deeds.

What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does.

When it's all over, you're remembered for what you did, not what you said you were going to do.

Speaking as someone who's played a lot of video games, and at the end of the video game all you have is a memory, after woodworking you get this piece of furniture.

I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.

You spend a lot of time studying, and you want to do something with that. Something that's tangible, like creating a show, writing a screenplay, making a difference.

Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.

We have to improve our ability to deliver tangible results, namely sales, not simply awareness or change of attitude among opinion formers.

What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.

Without impact, innovation is just an idea with promise.

We believe only in deeds and acts and not in declarations. We are fed up with all those declarations, promises.

Speeches pass away, but acts remain.

Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit.

I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.

Long experience has taught me not always to believe in the limitations indicated by purely theoretical considerations. These, as we well know, are based on insufficient knowledge of all the relevant factors.

You can make a lot of speeches, but the real thing is when you dig a hole, plant a tree, give it water, and make it survive. That's what makes the difference

Politicians don't make things—they occasionally have ideas and mostly see them frustrated. But at Cadbury-Schweppes, you can actually go into a factory and see something come out the other end, like a bottle of tonic water or a bar of chocolate. It is a completely different feeling.

A woman seldom runs wild after an abstraction. The habitual direction of her mind [is] to dealing with things as individuals rather than in groups

Look, it's a show-me game. I've got to be able to show it.

So what makes me happy? I was really happy to build this house. That's it; building things. The trouble with software is that it's very hard to show your aunt in Florida what you've done.

Cases like Power Traders Press are just as important as cases like Mobile TeleSystems. In my view, our best cases are those that yield tangible results for everyday people.