polar star

"But we have 20% as our polar star," he said, adding he aimed to book margin improvements every year, so ideally reaching the 20% target by 2029-2030 "if we do the right things".

From Reuters ● Mar. 21, 2023

"Instead of striving for the survival of his creature, he seems to have no other polar star than himself," Romano said.

From Reuters ● Nov. 30, 2012

"He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it," wrote Confucius 2,500 years ago.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2012

"Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy -- world domination -- is a fixed star."

From Time Magazine Archive

The light of the northern polar star grew fainter and fainter, its altitude diminished, and it at length entirely disappeared.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer