Great Results Quotes

• Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.474, Princeton University Press

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• History is the same thing over and over again.

  Woody Allen

  Fitness Motivational, Temporary Insanity, Bores You

  "Nothing Pleases Me More than Being Thought of as a European Filmmaker". Interview with Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. June 20, 2005.

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• Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean, Historical, Results

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.136, Harvard University Press

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• Only by great risks can great results be achieved.

  Xerxes I

  Inspirational, Risk, Results

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• Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.

  Jerry Flint

  Success, Sports, Competition

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• Congratulations to Obama! He's now increased the debt more in three years than George W. Bush did his entire eight year presidency. But all that spending was worth it because just look at the great results! So what exactly is the argument that Obama isn't a hugely incompetent failure? So far it's 'Look! Over there! A war on women!'

  Frank J. Fleming

  Congratulations, War, Exactly Is

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• Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination. The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war. Only great and general battles can produce great results. Blood is the price of victory.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Determination, Military, War

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• The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results. Smeaton learned his principle of constructing a lighthouse, by noticing the trunk of a tree to be diminished from a curve to a cyclinder ... and Newton, turning an old box into a water-clock, or the yard of a house into a sundial, are examples of those habits of patient observation which scientific biography attractively recommends.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Science, Men, Curves

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• For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it.

  Euripides

  Effort, Desire, Foolish

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• It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creatingfuture dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.

  Bertrand Russell

  Education, Hope, Teaching

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• Great results, can be achieved with small forces.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Results

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• A great race car driver in a bad car doesn't make great results. A great car and a bad race car driver doesn't make great results. You have to have both. It's the combination of driver and car.

  Jeff Burton

  Race, Car, Results

  "Daytona Preseason Thunder - Burton press conference, part 2". Press conference, www.motorsport.com. January 15, 2008.

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• You must ask, "What do we mean by great results?" Your goals don't have to be quantifiable, but they do have to be describable. Some leaders try to insist, "The only acceptable goals are measurable," but that's actually an undisciplined statement. Lots of goals-beauty, quality, life change, love-are worthy but not quantifiable. But you do have to be able to tell if you're making progress.

  James C. Collins

  Life Changing, Mean, Goal

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• It is difficult to find another branch of knowledge where a small amount of study produces such great results in increased efficiency in a country where the people rule, as in parliamentary law.

  Henry Martyn Robert

  Country, Law, People

  Henry Martyn Robert (2000). “Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised”, Da Capo Press

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• In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results.

  George P. Baker

  Drama, Giving, Perfect

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• I think expressing yourself and working hard can't help but have great results. Look at Zach Galifanakis. He didn't tweet. He didn't have a podcast. He just went out and did the funniest standup you'll ever see in your life. And he was rewarded for that.

  Scott Aukerman

  Thinking, Looks, Helping

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• A ball is like a very disciplined child. It does exactly what it is told to do. Great information, great direction and great results. Inadequate information leads to inadequate results.

  Ed Palubinskas

  Children, Doe, Balls

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• In our own days we have seen no princes accomplish great results save those who have been accounted miserly.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Results, Accomplish, Has Beens

  Niccolo Machiavelli, Thomas Moore (2010). “Machiavelli, More & Luther”, p.55, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspired, Modern, Achieve

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Why Men Fight: A Method of Abolishing the International Duel”, p.96, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Even though I teach with 35mm, my method takes people by surprise, because it isn't fast, and it isn't about hardware or software, or even great results. It's about great process.

  Sam Abell

  People, Surprise, Process

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• In an ironic twist, I now see Good to Great not as a sequel to Built to Last, but more of a prequel. Good to Great is about how to turn a good organization into one that produces sustained great results. Built to Last is about how you take a company with great results and turn it into an enduring great company of iconic stature.

  James C. Collins

  Organization, Ironic, Lasts

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• Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Rewards, Groups, Great Work

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Zeal is the chief source, or one of the chief sources of spiritual power. God employs living souls to communicate life. In all ages, men of zeal have produced great results. This qualification, in the absence of others, can accomplish wonders.

  Charles Hodge

  Spiritual, Men, Soul

  Charles Hodge (2004). “Conference Papers”, p.284, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

  Sun Tzu

  Wise, Wisdom, War

  Sun Tzu (2010). “The Art of War”, p.47, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Culture drives great results.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Culture, Results

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