It's not your end goal that gives life to your required actions, it's your required actions that give life to your end goal.

If the goal is what you want to achieve, then the purpose is why you want to achieve it. Without purpose, reaching your goal will have little or no meaning.

If you have goals and procrastination, you have nothing. If you have goals and you take action, you will have anything you want.

A skilled Transition Team leader will set the general goals for a Transition, and then confer on the other team leaders working with him the power to implement those goals.

The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe.

“If we do not allow ourselves to fall short of our goals from time to time, it may cause us to avoid our goals altogether.”

“In business, non-challenging goals lead us to non-creative solutions. Our goals need to be challenging enough to get us thinking creatively.”

It can be argued that the computer is humanity’s attempt to replicate the human brain. This is perhaps an unattainable goal. However, unattainable goals often lead to outstanding accomplishment.

“Five years ago we set a goal of having $1 trillion in assets under management by the year 2005. We've reached that goal four years ahead of schedule. When we sat that goal, we had $125 billion in customer assets.”

“We wanted to get first place. That was our main goal. We set our goals high. We had a goal to get a national bid and since we were going to the competition we felt we may as well take first.”