Quotes About Assessment

Constant evaluation should lead to change in order to improve.

Circumstances can be neither positive or negative; there are neutral. Only by your thinking do you attribute circumstances either positive or negative.

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven't figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, 'There's something fishy about you.'

So often, the best way to figure out who has a shot at winning is by eliminating those that you're pretty sure don't.

Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.

Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get.

I asked the Mesquite coach who he thought the best team in Mesquite is. He said they were about even.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory, ' I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

Measure what is important, don't make important what you can measure

Before you can really start setting financial goals, you need to determine where you stand financially.

All intelligent investing is value investing - acquiring more that you are paying for. You must value the business in order to value the stock.

You need to know exactly where you stand in a business at all times. Measure everything, because everything that is measured and watched improves.

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away

Any prudent business looks at the reality and how to maximize our investment.

Good marketers measure.

People must be realistic when evaluating their business.

You have to shelf your excitement and be realistic about your internal and external strengths and weaknesses. (p.70)

Every time you invite a candidate to interview, you should expect to be interviewed, too.

Appraisal – the best resources will get the worst result

I understood it's a business as far as when you're drafting someone, and you want a guy you can trust. But there were no questions on my ability or character.

When one demands equal rights for women, one needs to assess in which areas women can work better than men, in which they can work like men, and in which they need protection and affirmative action for when they cannot work like men.

How do you know how much to pay if you don't know what it's worth?

In philosophical discussions of decision-making, an action is said to be instrumentally rational if it is a good way of achieving the goal that the agent is pursuing, whatever that goal might be. When assessing actions according to their instrumental rationality, we do not worry about where the goals come from or whether they are appropriate goals. We just ask whether the action is likely to achieve the outcome that the agent desires.