I always think the toughest commentary is on a bad…

Thoughtfully assessing and addressing enterprise risk and placing a high value on corporate transparency can protect the one thing we cannot afford to lose:…

— Dale E. Jones

“when it comes to assessing a candidate’s common sense, vision, creativity, or decision-making abilities, school records are of limited value.”

— Ray Dalio

We should not lay all past mistakes on Chairman Mao. So we must be very objective in assessing him. His contributions were primary, his…

— Deng Xiaoping

To make HP a great company once again, we need more than competitive costs and operational efficiency. We're in the process of assessing and…

— Bill Vaughan

The antidote to envy is one's own work. Always one's own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it. But the…

— Bonnie Friedman

I was trained as a philosopher never to put philosophers and their ideas into historical contexts, since historical context has nothing to do with…

— Rebecca Goldstein

As we grow older, we should learn that these are two quite different things. Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something…

— Sydney J. Harris

There's really no such thing as an 'ex-cop' or a cop who's 'off-duty' or 'retired.' Once trained, once indoctrinated, a cop is always alert,…

— Sue Grafton

If there is genuine potential for growth, build capacity in advance of demand, as a strategy for creating demand. Hold the vision, especially as…

— Peter Senge

The men at the top aren't that great at properly assessing the women under them, certainly not enough to gauge their potential or intestinal…

— Charlotte Beers

Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation in terms…

— Barbara Tuchman

The cost of assessing risk is now often greater than the cost of failing.

— Joichi Ito

It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. (Sebastian Barnack assessing a Roederer 1916 champagne in Time Must Have a Stop)

— Aldous Huxley

Given the central role of effective, firmwide risk management in maintaining strong financial institutions, it is clear that supervisors must redouble their efforts to…

— Ben Bernanke

I think the Congress will do the right thing. I think that they've - you know, they got into certain arguments and they start…

— Warren Buffett