"If a strategy meets a goal: It's working. If a strategy meets a target: It's a success."

-- Michael Porter

#Goal Quotes #Target Quotes #Strategy Quotes

“Successful people do all the things that unsuccessful people don't want to do.”
“Since weâ€™re playing that gameâ€¦ I tilted my face up to his and gave him a lovesick gaze. â€œDo you have to sneeze?â€ he asked. â€œBe quiet. Iâ€™m pretending to enjoy your company, just as you said.â€ â€œTry not to strain anything.â€ â€œOh, I wonâ€™t. Iâ€™m very good at faking it.â€ That shut him up.”
“Are we going to take the hands of the federal government completely off any effort to adjust the growing of national crops, and go right straight back to the old principle that every farmer is a lord of his own farm and can do anything he wants, raise anything, any old time, in any quantity, and sell any time he wants?”
“Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.”
“The man who is worthy of being a leader of men will never complain about the stupidity of his helpers, the ingratitude of mankind nor the inappreciation of the public. These are all a part of the great game of life. To meet them and overcome them and not to go down before them in disgust, discouragement or defeat-that is the final proof of power”
“There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be.”
“Cardinal arithmetic will be quite important for us, so we spend some time on it. Since, however, it tends to be trivial, we shall not need to spend much of this time on proofs.”
“I do not believe there is any important difference between men and women - certainly not as much as they may be between one woman and another or one man and another.”

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