Quotes About Evaluation

often a mountain decision is a molehill in retrospect— and sometimes vice versa later on when we reflect

I'm silently judging your font choice.

Mrs. Silverstein is a dub, and a softy, and a knocker," he said good-humoredly.  "What's she know about such things, anyway?  I tell you it is good, and healthy, too,"—this last as an afterthought. 

the balance sheet is the company's thermometer. It lets you know whether you're healthy or not.

Schwatzendale pulled at his chin. He mused. "There is stuff here which requires sober over-thinking." Moncrief waved away the idea. "No need! I have done all necessary thinking. The scheme is excellent!

Leaders relentlessly upgrade their team, using every encounter as an opportunity to evaluate, coach, and build self-confidence.

Companies win when their managers make a clear and meaningful distinction between top- and bottom-performing businesses and people, when they cultivate the strong and cull the weak. Companies suffer when every business and person is treated equally and bets are sprinkled all around like rain on the ocean.

GE's system of differentiation, which separates employees into three performance categories and manages them up or out accordingly.

One must gauge one's trust carefully.

He tested his scales as carefully as Saint Peter is supposed to test his while weighing souls.

the burden of the thinking man is to calculate the probable good against the possible bad and to decide whether the change will be worth the risk.

there were many ways to judge the acts of an institution, and the pragmatic way was not the worst, by any means.

but she possessed what was better than beauty: an absolutely realistic evaluation of life.

IMPROVE. You wanted that ONE job, that ONE scholarship, that TV show, that book, to sell your company, to sell your product, whatever. And they said, no. Take a hard look at the product. Can you improve your offering? Can you take a step back and improve what you are doing? Maybe you can and maybe you can't. But brainstorm first. What are the ten things you can do to improve what you are doing?

Not every failure is an opportunity. But figure it out. Look at the times you failed. How many, in retrospect, were opportunities. About

In removing yourself temporarily from the situation, you reduce the supply of yourself. In basic economics, value is a function of supply and demand. When supply goes down, value goes up.

The definition of "success" for me is: "Is today successful?

the past will remain horrible for exactly as long as we refuse to assess it honestly.

Does she want you or does she not want you?' 'She went to Spain,' I said, 'to find out'. Giovanni open his eyes wide. He was indignant. 'To Spain. Why not to China? What is she doing, testing all the Spaniards and comparing them with you?

The good-to-great companies did not focus principally on what to do to become great; they focused equally on what not to do and what to stop doing.

good-to-great companies did not focus principally on what to do to become great; they focused equally on what not to do and what to stop doing.

Two key questions can help. First, if it were a hiring decision (rather than a "should this person get off the bus?" decision), would you hire the person again? Second, if the person came to tell you that he or she is leaving to pursue an exciting new opportunity, would you feel terribly disappointed or secretly relieved?

If a woman has a good ass the rest of her wil be nicely configured too, except for maybe the face. The face is always on its own.

I skip the introduction. If the book goes in the trash, I want it to go because of my thoughts on it, not because of some Asshole's thoughts who wrote the introduction.