Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the…

“This is not a con game in the criminal sense, in which con artists deliberately dupe the suckers. Instead it's a form of good…

— David F. Labaree

In business we often find that the winning system goes almost ridiculously far in maximizing and or minimizing one or a few variables -…

— Charlie Munger

The desire to maximize the number of winning trades (or minimize the number of losing trades) works against the trader. The success rate of…

— William Eckhardt

I was a better builder than a manager. I'd rather focus on maximizing the opportunities swinging for the fences than minimizing the risk with…

— Steve Case

The essence of risk management lies in maximizing the areas where we have some control over the outcome while minimizing the areas where we…

— Peter L. Bernstein

Foresight is not about predicting the future, it's about minimizing surprise.

— Karl Schroeder

Survivors have a difficult time expressing their feelings. They are more accustomed to minimizing their pain and hiding how they really feel, both from…

— Beverly Engel

The assumption that the larger culture agrees with Christians on values issues led to evangelicals' minimizing the theologically distinctive aspects of Christian witness. It…

— Russell D. Moore

There are various non-statistical tools that have been typically developed by lean companies, notably by Toyota for minimizing variability in production, such as standardization,…

— Masaaki Imai

“What should be measured is their ability to meet the performance objectives defined by Year 1, not how they present themselves during the interview. Minimizing”

— Lou Adler

A fundamental premise of American democratic theory is that government exists to serve the people. ... Public records are one portal through which the…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

When I repent, here is where it starts. I try to name my sin as honestly and as specifically as possible. Here is what…

— John Ortberg

Global warming ... may be a plaintiff lawyer's dream. And it's interesting, in a perverse way, to imagine how a jury in 2050 might…

— David Ignatius

Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That's the classic great entrepreneur.

— Mohnish Pabrai

Tachyon OPC+ is a natural extension of our market-winning Tachyon platform, giving customers a clear path to minimizing the OPC error budget and producing…

— Bill Vaughan