Quotes About Performance

Companies only have to be "big enough," which rarely means they have to dominate. Often "big enough" is just 10 percent of the market. Yet companies under the influence of winner-takes-all thinking tend to pursue illusory scale advantages. In doing so, they are likely to damage their own performance by cutting price to gain volume, by overextending themselves to serve all market segments, and by pursuing overpriced mergers and acquisitions.

Competing to be unique is unlike warfare in that one company's success does not require its rivals to fail. It is unlike competition in sports because every company can chose to invent its own game. A better analogy than war or sports might be the performing arts.

The real point of competition is not to beat your rivals. It's not about winning a sale. The point is to earn profits.

Seeing that gate turnarounds are a significant cost driver, you would then dive a level deeper, to the many specific subactivities involved in gate turnarounds. Here you'd be looking for ways to lower your costs without sacrificing customer value. This is how you drive an even greater wedge between your performance and that of your rivals.

The five forces framework zeroes in on the competition you face and gives you the baseline for measuring superior performance. It explains the industry's average prices and costs, and therefore the average industry profitability you are trying to beat. Before you can make sense of your own performance (current and potential), you need insight into the industry's fundamental economics.

While there is absolute improvement in OE, there is relative improvement for no

Comediennes are the lucky ones, because if you're funny, you can be 125 years old and they will still accept you.

Ginger did everything Fred did, only backwards and in High Heels!

When you begin to losing your audience, do not get loud; get quiet, make them find you and come back to you.

a concert at Albert Hall, immortalized by the Beatles in their Sergeant Pepper album.

He glanced over to the stage, where a nearly naked woman gyrated lifelessly around the pole. She could've been cleaning toilets for all the enthusiasm she showed.

I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.

I always have the fear that, if I don't commit 100 percent to my work, then it's gonna suffer.

Speed is not your fastest, but your slowest man. No back can run faster than his interference.

It's a scene I've fantasized about for years. Yet, now that it's happening, a part of me sits in the audience, watching the actors say their lines, analyzing the blocking. I can't tell if this is a defense mechanism or my intuition warning me to beware.

She was one of those people who seemed to regard busyness as a contest you could win. p. 246

The object of linguistics is language; that of poetics is concrete utterance. Language is an institution, a formal system which constitutes, for the hypothetical speaker, a "competence"; it is a virtual object. Speech (the poetic utterance, for our purposes) is an individual act which formulates a concrete discourse; it is a "performance".

When you're a child, no matter if you're doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make the adults happy.

He sounded good, didn't he?" added Franck. "He only stuttered eight times." "That's what I mean.

Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.

that good looking – Astaire, his name was – but he was a brilliant

I like figuring out where I need to be mentally so that I'm not thinking about the camera and that it's second nature. I want to get to a place where I can exist within the confines of what you can do with filmmaking and not have to think about it.

Sometimes, indeed, it seemed to me that the really important exchange was the freedom, with the mushroom-and-money trophies as extensions– proofs, as it were– of the performance. After all, it was the feeling of freedom, galvanizing "mushroom fever," that energized buyers to put on their best shows and pressed pickers to get up the next dawn to search for mushrooms again.

The only excuse for dancing is grace and beauty of movement.