Quotes About Assessment

Value-first is a perception. If your customer does not perceive it as value, then it's not very valuable.

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

I pass on any opportunity I see that I can't add value on.

I think investors ought to focus on making sure that the stock is within their circle of competence, that it's worth a lot more than it's valued at - and once you have those two things, a stop-loss makes no sense.

Working without a plan may seem scary. But blindly following a plan that has no relationship with reality is even scarier.

Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.

People don't give you what you're worth - not in anything they don't. They give you what they think you're used to.

Before putting up a large building, the architect surveys and tests the ground to see if it can support the weight; in the same way the wise legislator doesn't start by laying down his good laws but by investigating whether the populace they are intended for is in a condition to receive them.

We set out what's going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we'll reassess that... sometimes every week.

You can never really judge your work because once it's done, it's done.

Do any of us know how we're actually doing? Whether or not all the hard work and good intentions are paying off?

A critic often has to play the role of coroner, dissecting a work to find out why it died (or never lived).

Few great men could pass personnel.

To make something, you have to work within your abilities. Honestly assess what you can do and even more important, what can't you do.

I don't think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn't be nervous about that.

CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.

I think that before you take on nation building in your mind's eye as to how it should be, you'd better have a clear understanding if this is doable and will work.

With a lot of people you think you want to work with, you reach out to them about working and then realize you don't want to anymore because they're a complete dickhead.

You're happy that people are seeing your work. As for the critics, it really hurts when they knock you.

I check fashion magazines when I'm published in them to make sure that my work looks good, and then I kind of put it aside.

My work is very much like the restaurant critic's - a number of factors come together to make for a strong review.

In the end, all critics should be guided by this one principle: Is this piece of work [TV show, movie, play, concert, album, restaurant] succeeding at what it set out to do?

I'm just going to write my books and do my work and release it. Let the world decide what it is, and if it's any good or not.

Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.