“I learned to put 100 percent into what you're doing. I learned about setting goals for yourself, knowing where you want to be and taking small steps toward those goals. I learned about adversity and how to get past it.” WantPastGoalStepsKnowingPercentAdversitySettingSettingsSetting GoalsSmall Steps Author:Kristi Yamaguchi
“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.” PeopleIfsKnowsGoalLeadershipNumbersKnow HowMissingHigherTenPercentToughManagersEmployeeRealisticStaffExceedSuperbQuotaRealistic Goals Book:The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
“You can't spend 110 percent on something if you don't have that same hunger and drive. I have achieved all my goals - my mission is complete.” IfsGoalPercentHungerMissions Author:Lennox Lewis
“Where are the people who don't have goals headed? Those 97 per cent end up working for the three percent.” PeopleEndsThreeGoalPercentCents Author:Shiv Khera
“I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined federal-provincial corporate tax rate of no more than 25 percent. We're on target to do that by 2012. We will have significantly - by a significant margin the lowest corporate tax rates in the G-7, and that's our - our government's objective.” I CanGovernmentGoalForgetTaxesPercentRateSignificantObjectivesCorporateTargetRelevantLowestMargins Author:Stephen Harper
“We owe to every businessperson and worker in America the best environment in the world to create a job. We owe that to American business. 35 percent corporate tax rate is the second highest in the world. We need to lower it so they don’t leave.” WorldNeedsHelpingJobsAmericaGoalClassEnvironmentFiveMiddleTaxesHighestPercentWorkersRateCorporateThirtyMiddle ClassAmerican Business Author:Lindsey Graham
“I found a lot of stuff that's never been seen before. That was the goal: to not use cliché Cold War footage but give people a sense of the place and setting. It's a field you still need. At first it was a lot of fun, and then later it became a little bit intimidating. "Oh my God, I've got so much footage. Where am I going to put it? What am I going to do?" I ended up really only reviewing about 20 to 30 percent of what I had. So it was a task.” PeopleNeedsGivingFirstsLittlesStillsWarUseFoundFunStuffBitsGoalFieldsColdLittle BitPercentTasksSettingSettingsCold WarIntimidating Author:Gabe Polsky
“It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time-consuming and energy consuming. It is easier to raise $10,000,000 than it is $1,000,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s.” PeopleWorldEnergyGoalPerfectLevelsFiveAchieveEasierPicksPercentLonelyAimRaisesCompetitionConvincedNineBarsGreat ThingsRealisticIncapableMediocreNinetyConsumingNinety NineTime ConsumingRealistic GoalsLonely At The Top Author:Tim Ferriss
“When I was working at Omega, I took this Zen retreat, where you're quiet, you don't say anything for a week, and this guy there said, "You're going to be enlightened at the end of this week, that's my goal." I was the engineer, so I was recording everything at it was happening, but I was also participating, because I felt like it. So at the end of it, I did understand what enlightenment was, one-hundred percent.” SaidEndsGuyFeltGoalWeekQuietHappeningsEnlightenmentPercentHundredEnlightenedEngineersSay AnythingRetreatThis GuyParticipating Author:Larkin Grimm
“There's one denomination in particular, though, that has pushed very hard to be multiracial in its denomination - not only its denomination but, I mean, in its congregations, and it's called the Evangelical Covenant Church, http://www.covchurch.org/ which is headquartered in Chicago. Their whole goal is that's the kind of churches they start, multiracial, and I think they say now 20 percent of their churches are that.” ThinkingKindMeanHardWholeGoalChurchParticularPercentChicagoCovenantEvangelicalCongregationMultiracialDenominations Author:Michael Emerson
“And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.” IfsWayYearsMadeImportantCareGoalTermLevelsProgressHugeCostPercentImportant ThingsHealth CareInflationDeficitReducingHealth Care Costs Author:Barack Obama
“I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.” GivingPlayGoalInspiringAttitudeGiving UpPercentNot Giving UpNever Giving UpBeing PositiveMy AttitudeNever Give Up On SomethingKeep SmilingJust Keep SmilingGive 100 Percent Author:Yani Tseng