The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can…

The single hand that wipes your tears during your failures is better than the countless hands that come together to clap you on your…

— Anonymous

The single hand that wipes your tears during your failures is better than the countless hands that come together to clap for you during…

— Mercy Pheona

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

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