Quotes About Evaluation

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.

I asked the Mesquite coach who he thought the best team in Mesquite is. He said they were about even.

When it's over and you look in the mirror, did you do the best you were capable of? If yes, you will probably be ok with the outcome

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory, ' I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

In College average and numbers means everything to a guy.

Don't think that even an engineer, when he buys a motor, takes it to bits to scrutinize it. Even he as a specialist buys from the external appearance. A motor ought to look like a birthday present.

It's a question we all ask ourselves. What have we done lately? It rattles us each birthday.

What gets measured gets managed.

There is nothing as easy as denouncing. It don't take much to see that something is wrong, but it does take some eyesight to see what will put it right again

Accounting is the language of business.

Measure what is important, don't make important what you can measure

Before you can really start setting financial goals, you need to determine where you stand financially.

Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation.

The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.

You need to know exactly where you stand in a business at all times. Measure everything, because everything that is measured and watched improves.

Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving.

You must value the business in order to value the stock.

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away

Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, in business, so is a number.

Basically, the single-most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power.

Advertisements may be evaluated scientifically; they cannot be created scientifically.

Good marketers measure.

Imagine if your business burned down and you had to walk across the street and start again, what would you do differently?