Quotes About Performance

body counts. It was how their performance was assessed, and it became one of the greatest self-reporting scams in history. Everyone knew it was going on. Some of the more senior commanders discouraged the practice, but it was so widespread—and so hard to disprove—that few if any field officers were ever disciplined for it.

Only the inept are always at their best.

Only bad actors memorize lines. Good actors are perpetually writing them as they act.

We are the stage and all the players.

People doing good work feel good & people doing exceptional work feel, exceptional. Accomplishments contributes greatly to satisfaction.

The only thing better than an acknowledgement is action.

position never determines performance, ultimately performance determines position in life.

I have often said that the negative is similar to a musician's score, and the print to the performance of that score. The negative comes to life only when performed as a print.

Prior Preparation Prevents Poor Performance, as they say in the army - and I always, always want to be ready. Just like Bigfoot.

Line cooking done well is a beautiful thing to watch. It's a high-speed collaboration resembling, at its best, ballet or modern dance.

As an art form, cooktalk is, like haiku or kabuki, defined by established rules, with a rigid, traditional framework in which one may operate.

The stage was microscopic. I could have reached out in either direction and touched Hillel or Flea. We didn't even get a proper introduction, but people started to take notice as we were plugging in. All the anticipation of the moment hit me, and I instinctively knew that the miracle of manipulating energy and tapping into an infinite source of power and harnessing it in a small space with your friends was what I had been put on this earth to do.

That was a good straightforward point of view, no pretence that games were anything but an outlet for power and aggression; no stuff about their being enjoyable as such. You played a game to demonstrate that you did it better than someone else. If it came to that, I thought how few people do anything for its own sake, from making love to practising the arts.

In one room the carpet had been rolled back, and a hunchback wearing a velvet smoking-jacket was playing an accordion, writhing backwards and forwards as he attacked his instrument with demiurgic frenzy.

that people who produce outstanding results think this way.

And this real-world approach is called the dollar-weighted return.

When you buy a company, what you're really buying are its assets. So you've got to look at those assets and ask yourself, "Why aren't they doing as well as they should be?" Fully 90% of the time, the reason is management

Just like dollar-cost averaging, the discipline once again makes you invest in underperforming assets when their prices are low, so that you own lots of them when their prices go up.

Because investors as a group can't beat the market, because they are the market.

So we know the four potential seasons, but which type of investment will perform well in each of these environments?" Ray responded by categorizing them into each season. Below is a chart that makes it easy to break down visually.

Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week.

We have learned that nobody beats the market (except for a handful of "unicorns")! And by using low-cost market-mimicking index funds, we can outperform 96% of mutual funds and nearly as many hedge funds.

Surprise, the returns reported by mutual funds aren't actually earned by investors.

And most individual investors pay too much for the privilege of being average.