“We weren’t trying to strike it rich with Firefox. It’s open source and it’s free. We weren’t trying to take over the world; we had kind of modest goals, and it was OK if it failed. We were a lot freer to make risky decisions. If you can afford to do things that way, it’s just so much better. You’re not thinking about venture capitalists or marketing or sales. Just product and users, all day every day.” IfsThinkingWorldWayTryingKindGoalDecisionRichProductsSourceMarketingStrikesCapitalistUsersModestVentureOpen SourceVenture Capitalists Author:Blake Ross
“No one ever achieved a goal by being interested in its achievement. One must be committed. In fact, in studying the source of people's success, I've found that persistence overshadows even talent as the most valued and effective resource in creating and shaping the quality of life. Most people give up a maddening five feet from their goal!” PeopleGivingFactsMotivationalFoundGoalQualityStudyFiveFeetTalentSourceGiving UpAchievementCreatingResourcesCommittedPersistenceBelieve In YourselfDedicationQuality Of LifeRecipe For SuccessGiving Up Is Not An OptionNever Surrender Book:Awaken The Giant Within Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“Our goal is not to assume leadership of existing institutions, but rather to render them irrelevant. We don't want to take over the state or change its policies. We want to render its laws unenforceable. We don't want to take over corporations and make them more 'socially responsible.' We want to build a counter-economy of open-source information, neighborhood garage manufacturing, permaculture, encrypted currency and mutual banks, leaving the corporations to die on the vine along with the state. We do not hope to reform the existing order. We intend to serve as its grave-diggers.” WantStatesLawPurposeOrderDiesSocialGoalChangeEconomyInformationPolicySourceEconomicsResponsibleAimInstitutionsAssumingLeavingGravesReformCorporationsNeighborhoodMutualCurrencyIrrelevantManufacturingReformationGarageVinesRenderingPermacultureOpen SourceEconomic Reforms Author:Kevin Carson
“Turn strategy into simple language so every staff member knows it. People must understand why you are doing, what you are doing and where you are going. Big almost impossible, highly meaningful goal + respectful & supportive team is the winning combination of fear & love. Meaning is the biggest sources of energy that gets you up in the morning.” PeopleKnowsBigsTurnsWinningEnergyLanguageGoalSimpleMorningImpossibleTeamSourceMembersStrategyMeaningfulCombinationWhere You AreStaffSupportiveRespectfulLove MeansFear Of LoveWhere You Are GoingStaff Members Author:Michael Rennie
“I am determined to seek self-sufficiency in energy as an urgent national priority. My goal is to make America independent of foreign energy sources by 1985.” SelfAmericaEnergyGoalSourceIndependentDeterminedPrioritiesUrgentSelf SufficiencySufficiencyEnergy SourcesI Am Determined Author:Gerald R. Ford
“Awakening is not a state but a process: an ethical way of life and commitment that enables human flourishing. As such, it is no longer the exclusive preserve of enlightened teachers or accomplished yogis. Likewise, nirvana-the stopping of craving-is not the goal of the path but its very source. For human flourishing first stirs in that clear, bright, empty space where neurotic self-centredness realizes that it has no ground at all to stand on. One is then freed to pour forth like sunlight.” WayFirstsHumansSelfStatesProcessGoalRealizingSpacePathClearTeacherSourceCommitmentEmptyAwakeningPreservesAccomplishedEnlightenedEthicalSunlightStoppingCravingExclusiveNeuroticFlourishingEmpty SpaceYogi Author:Stephen Batchelor
“Playing somebody who's real, you can bring all kind of nuances and things to him that you get from source material and things like that, but the more popular or known the person is, the more impossible it is. To get it right, that is the goal.” KindPersonsRealGoalKnownImpossibleMaterialsSourceAll KindsNuanceReal You Author:Anthony Mackie
“My goal was to have as many of the primary sources as I could made available for people to look at and understand. Climate change is probably the most important thing that's ever happened, and yet people's understanding of it and its history remains a little fuzzy.” PeopleLooksLittlesMadeImportantUnderstandingGoalHappenedSourceRemainsImportant ThingsClimateClimate ChangeAvailablePrimariesFuzzyPrimary Source Author:Bill McKibben
“The ultimate goal of a habit-forming product is to solve the user's pain by creating an association so that the user identifies the company's product or service as the source of relief.” PainGoalCompanyProductsSourceHabitCreatingUltimateSolveReliefAssociationUsersUltimate Goal Book:Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products Source: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
“Knowledge and know-how are the real sources of value and riches. You can learn anything you need to learn to achieve any goal you can set for yourself.” KnowsNeedsRealValuesGoalKnow HowAchieveSourceRiches Author:Brian Tracy
“While sabotaging our reliable energy sources, Obama is also throwing as much federal money as he can at failed green energy projects, which are so ill-conceived that a reasonable person might conclude this goal is to waste money. Solyndra wasn't the only such failed enterprise, as we've shown. There were a dozen others, and despite these failures and the unconscionable waste, he has revealed nothing but a defiant determination to double down and spend more on other such projects. It's mind-blowing.” MindPersonsMightEnergyGoalSourceWasteProjectsDeterminationDown AndGreenIllDespiteReasonableEnterpriseThrowingDozenMind BlowingEnergy SourcesGreen Energy Author:David Limbaugh
“My first goal would be to reduce the perturbation in the carbon cycle. That would mean using carbon neutral sources of energy, and changing our agricultural practices to be less disruptive and polluting. I'm not talking about a policy here so much as changing the way our infrastructure works. That's why I'm so fascinated with changing the way we build cities, because they are the most developed forms of physical infrastructure for human habitation.” WayFirstsHumansMeanWould BeFormEnergyGoalCitiesTalkingPracticePolicySourceCyclesFascinatedCarbonInfrastructureNot TalkingDisruptiveCarbon Cycle Author:Annalee Newitz
“We need a national renewable energy goal. Such a goal, sometimes called a renewable energy standard (RES), would spell out what percentage of our power America plans to get from renewable sources.” NeedsSometimesAmericaEnergyGoalPlansSourceStandardsSpellsPercentagesRenewable Energy Author:Van Jones
“The most effective CEOs have a primary source for tracking their markets. They meet with their teams frequently enough to keep innovation flowing, to reduce and focus costs, to be energized. They create a tight agenda and they set high goals.” EnoughGoalFocusTeamSourceCostInnovationPrimariesAgendasCeoTrackingPrimary SourceHigh Goals Author:Michael J. Silverstein
“"Ultimate reality" is the highest, deepest, eternal, unchangeable, source and ground of everything we see, touch, and experience with our five senses. It's that which gives being and meaning to everything finite, mortal, changeable. It's also that toward which we creatures look and live - whether we know it or not - our telos; our goal and purpose.” KnowsGivingLooksRealityPurposeGoalFiveSourceCreaturesEternalHighestUltimateSensesMortalsFiniteUnchangeableFive SensesUltimate Reality Author:Roger E. Olson