Quotes About Evaluation

The only way to know how customers see your business is to look at it through their eyes

You can increase the odds of spotting the weak points in your approach if you really think about the end-to-end business model you plan to follow - how you plan to create, capture, and deliver value.

Now in business we do a cost benefit analysis before we make policy changes. Washington should as well.

In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm.

People must be realistic when evaluating their business.

There is no perfect mathematical formula for pricing a business.

Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don't find one, it's you.

Look at your own behaviors and ask yourself, "Would I want to be my friend???

If there is a gain and loss in business, feedback control is my business.

Every time you invite a candidate to interview, you should expect to be interviewed, too.

Appraisal – the best resources will get the worst result

PALATABLE CRITICISM: In a performance review, don't offer more than three criticisms. That's all an employee can digest.

I understood it's a business as far as when you're drafting someone, and you want a guy you can trust. But there were no questions on my ability or character.

I would not advise people to buy a car or house without making a list. You will probably improve your intuitions by making a list and then sleeping on it.

A 99% Value-at-Risk calculation does not evaluate what happens in the last one percent... This is like an airbag that works all the time, except when you have a car accident.

When I'm buying car insurance I ask myself, 'Which company has the most annoying and relentless commercials?'

The only way that entire car is worth 500 bucks is if there's a 300 dollar hooker sitting in it.

You can't show me an ad on TV with hard bodies and say I have to buy that car. You have to tell me why that car is better and safer than another car.

When I listen to the engine of my car, I might say it sounds fine, but it would not occur to me to say "What lovely music!

Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact.

I don't know that men are better judges than women, said Florence, but they spend much less time regretting their decisions.

How do you know how much to pay if you don't know what it's worth?

Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity.

To supply data is not enough. The data have to be integrated with strategy, they have to test a company's assumptions, and they must challenge a company's current outlook. One