Performance Goals Quotes

#1. People with learning goals are all about increasing their skills, whereas those with performance goals are all about winning, and looking smart. Because

Scott Barry Kaufman

#2. A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Vernon Jordan

#3. People who focus on 'getting better' goals (also known as Personal Bests) as opposed to performance goals have a much better chance of success.

Jill Konrath

#4. I like noise. It's always puzzled me why one of the goals of contemporary recording is to get rid of noise and to eliminate any element of a performance.

Moby

#5. The kids say golf taught them this and that. I get it with the military: A guy joins the military because he needs discipline and has to find himself. But don't tell me, 'Golf helps you find yourself.' I've been playing my whole life, and I'm still looking for myself.

Lewis Black

#6. As a result of subduing the forces of nature with the tools that we invent, we find ourselves today at the point where the force of our tools has become a greater concern than the forces of nature.

Elena Ferrante

#7. It is time to maximize and prioritize our health care dollars.

Jane D. Hull

#8. Leadership is the art of creating a working climate that inspires others to achieve extraordinary goals and levels of performance.

John Michael Montgomery

#9. Understanding the three sets of goals, and establishing organizational policies and practices that are in tune with them, is the key to high workforce morale and firm performance. There is no conflict between the goals of most workers

David Sirota

#10. You must have been some kind of raging elephant, because it took three darts for them to take you down.

Susan Kaye Quinn

#11. To be sure, the fundamental task of management remains the same: to make people capable of joint performance through common goals, common values, the right structure, and the training and development they need to perform and to respond to change.

Peter F. Drucker

#12. People are remarkably bad at remembering long lists of goals. I learned this at a professional level when trying to get my high-performance coaching clients to stay on track; the longer their lists of to-dos and goals, the more overwhelmed and off-track they got. Clarity comes with simplicity.

Brendon Burchard

#13. If, for example, I had just as much love as you had virtue (and that is surely saying a lot) it is not astonishing that one should end at the same time as the other. It is not my fault.

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

#14. The goals of applying scoreboard are to translate the vision and strategic planning into operational goals; communicate strategy and link it to individual performance.

Pearl Zhu

#15. I set very bold goals. It's how I've always been. I'm definitely somebody who swings for the fences, and I expect very high performance.

Ivanka Trump

#16. Some people get more of a chance to show who they are. Other people never get the chance.

Todd Strasser

#17. Set goals for things you can control. In my case, I can't control the marks from the judges, but I can control how I train every day, and I can control my performance.

Claire Carver-Dias

#18. No expectations, no tension between goals and performance, no outrage, resolve or intention, no action, no results. There's only one way to get a government - and a nation - to stop drifting to low performance. That's to wake up and insist on higher standards.

Donella Meadows

#19. Performance metrics are numbers in context, results are related to your strategic goals.

Pearl Zhu

#20. Take a minute: look at your goals, look at your performance, see if your behavior matches your goals.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

#21. At some point, a group of people working towards similar goals will exhibit a distribution of performance.

Steven Sinofsky

#22. Seen many betrayals, and many broken hearts. There are those who let their grief devour them. Who forget that others also feel pain.

Cassandra Clare

#23. If you try to improve the performance of a system of people, machines, and procedures by setting numerical goals for the improvement of individual parts of the system, the system will defeat your efforts and you will pay a price where you least expect it.

Myron Tribus

#24. A scorecard assesses progress to strategic goals whereas a dashboard assesses performance to operational goals.

Pearl Zhu

#25. If you're going to do something, strive to do it better than anyone else. Do it all the way. If you're going to half-ass it, why bother?

Ashly Lorenzana