Quotes About Performance

Information without execution is poverty.

Because effort with effective execution creates magic.

Most big retail firms sell you notes that have substantial commissions, underwriting fees, and distributions fees; all of these will take away from your potential upside. Accessing structured notes through a sophisticated, expert fiduciary (a registered investment advisor) will typically have those fees removed because a fiduciary charges a flat advisory fee. And by stripping out those fees, performance goes up.

complexity is the enemy of execution.

You have to learn the rules of the game, and then you have to play better than anyone else. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

That's obvious, right? And there have been recent studies, including one by Vanguard in 2012, showing that in rolling ten-year periods over the past 80 years in the US, UK, and Australian stock markets, lump-sum investing has outperformed dollar-cost averaging more than two-thirds of the time.

It would be a mistake to judge it by any single year, rather we need to evaluate its overall long-term performance—like any other investment opportunity.

For the 20-year period from December 31, 1993, to December 31, 2013, the S&P 500 returned 9.2% annually, but the average mutual fund investor averaged just over 2.5%, barely beating inflation.

The low-cost index funds or ETFs you choose will change the performance. It's crucial to find the most efficient and cost-effective representations for each percentage.

Servants are wonderful actors, looking often as though they knew nothing when they know everything, — as though they understood nothing, when they understand all.

Perhaps he may, sir. There's no knowing what a 'orse can carry till he's tried.

To be always acting a part rather than living her own life was to her everything.

The theater is the only place in the world where a gesture, once made, can never be made the same way twice.

Sans un élément de cruauté à la base de tout spectacle, le théâtre n'est pas possible.

AcÅ£iunea teatrului, ca ÅŸi a ciumei, este binef?c?toare, c?ci impingându-i pe oameni s? se vad? aÅŸa cum sunt, le smulge masca, le descoper? minciuna, moleÅŸeala, nimicnicia, ipocrizia

Lydia Ruslanova

Out of the box, my what-focus at work is results. In the box, by contrast, my what-focus is justification. That's the first reason why the box always undercuts results.

Hay quienes no pasan de ser sólo acciones, otros además de la acción, dejan un producto.

It's the fastest who gets paid, and it's the fastest who gets laid.

Actions which produce [virtue] are those which increase it, and also, if differently performed, destroy it.

W]here there are things to be done the end is not to survey and recognize the various things, but rather to do them...

Aeschylus first introduced a second actor; he diminished the importance of the Chorus, and assigned the leading part to the dialogue.

The Chorus too should be regarded as one of the actors; it should be an integral part of the whole, and share in the action, in the manner not of Euripides but of Sophocles.

The objects the imitator represents are actions.