Quotes About Evaluation

Read over your existing business plan like you read the menu at your favorite restaurant.

Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea.

When you bring an idea that has no merit to me, and you ask me to comment on it, I'm going to tell you it has no merit.

I have been measured on my merit and on my accomplishments.

It's hard to judge literary merit.

I judge people based on their capability, honesty, and merit.

I judge people based on merit, on personality.

I take every job on its merits.

I'm here to govern for everybody and I hope that people judge me on my merits and what I can do.

I want to be judged on my own merits.

At some point, an industry has to either succeed or fail on its own merits.

I take each job on its merits. If a job's good, and it's worth doing for the reasons you want to do it, then I make that decision at the time.

When I get to 40, I'm going to re-evaluate everything and then go from there. Because when I get to 40, I would like to see where I'm at in my career because I might want to go, 'You know what, I'm done. I'm just happy with everything,' and I'm going to go off my merry way, and I'll probably never pick up a golf club ever again.

When you mess up, teams wonder whether they want to put their hands on you. I respect that. They can only go by a rap sheet or a resume.

I'm never happy about anything, playing-wise. I always think there's things I messed up on, things I should've done differently that could've, A, made us win, or B, made the win easier.

Most consumers don't have a good metric for deciding on whether the dictionary they want to use is a good one... so they flip the book over, then go to the back, and it says, 'Over 250,000 entries.' And they go, 'Great, this dictionary must be awesome!'

Corporations are not employment agencies, and judging them by that metric is a mistake.

At Amazon, with new initiatives, we don't look at something and say, 'Okay, it needs to hit this certain metric.' Because it's impossible to know whether somebody's going to respond to something really new and innovative.

Back to Microsoft days, I'm always looking for, 'OK, that's great, but what can go wrong?'

See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.

You don't know whether he's thought through how this is going to affect the Middle East.

A critic is not a creative artist, is a commenter, a midwife of creativity, but not creative himself.

I'm always listening and watching; my ear is like a boom mike. And judging, frankly. Constantly judging.

When I was 18 it was my last season in Milan. I was 18 turning 19 and it was my last season in Milan and I knew that that year was very important for me. A lot of scouts were coming to every game.