An investment is only successful if intended benefits are realised. Benefits realization supports key choices and actions to achieve this success.
Some relevant and entertaining quotes from Wovex, the leader in benefit realization software - www.wovex.com
4. If you don’t know where you’re going,
any road will get you there.
- Lewis Carroll
5. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over
again and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
6. Checking the results of a decision against its
expectations shows executives
what their strengths are,
where they need to improve,
and where they lack knowledge or information.
- Peter Drucker
7. A lack of transparency results in distrust
and a deep sense of insecurity.
- Dalai Lama
8. The first thing you must do is decide what you
really want. Weigh the costs and the results.
Are the results worthy of the costs?
Then make up your mind completely and go
after your goal with all your might.
- Alfred A. Montapert
9. You don't reward reaction;
you reward results.
- Edwin Louis Cole
10. You cannot make progress
without making decisions.
- Jim Rohn
17. The purpose of goals is not to just achieve
them - it's what they make of you as people
and as an organisation.
- adapted from Zig Ziglar
18. People think of these eureka moments and
my feeling is that they tend to be little
things, a little realisation and then a little
realisation built on that.
- Roger Penrose
19. Setting goals is the first step in
turning the invisible into the visible.
- Tony Robbins
20. Those who trust to chance must
abide by the results of chance.
- Calvin Coolidge
22. Informed decision-making comes from a
long tradition of guessing and then
blaming others for inadequate results.
- Scott Adams
23. You don't get results by focusing on results.
You get results by focusing on the actions
that produce results.
- Mike Hawkins
24. Success requires first expending ten units of
effort to produce one unit of results. Your
momentum will then produce ten units of
results with each unit of effort.
- Charles J. Givens
25. People who produce good results
feel good about themselves.
- Ken Blanchard
26. If leaders in the space program had at its
beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits
to people on earth rather than emphasizing the
search for proof of evolution in space, the
program would have saved $100 billion in tax
money and achieved greater results.
- Walter Lang
27. When money follows results -
we will get more results for
our money.
- Bob Riley
28. If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins
29. Effective leadership is not about making
speeches or being liked; leadership is defined
by results not attributes.
- Peter Drucker
30. A business like an automobile, has to
be driven, in order to get results.
- B. C. Forbes
31. You don't get any medal for trying
something, you get medals for results.
- Bill Parcells
32. There is nothing so useless
as doing efficiently that which should not
be done at all.
- Peter Drucker
33. People don’t buy products (services); they
buy the expectation of benefits
- Theodore Levitt, Harvard Business School
34. It takes as much energy to wish as it
does to plan.
– Eleanor Roosevelt