Performance Quotes
1516 quotes by 1228 authors
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If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions…
— Lou Gerstner
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Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads…
— Carlos Ghosn
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The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in…
— Edward Gibbon
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To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and…
— Jim Gibbons
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If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time…
— Michael Gove
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I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st…
— Antony Gormley
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When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is.
— Dave Grohl
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There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of…
— Andy Grove
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Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption.
— Phil Collins
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'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it,…
— Harry Connick, Jr.
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I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it's not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more…
— Billy Connolly
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I love being on stage if I'm not on a set. If I'm at home, I'm usually in my office editing or reconstructing my website…
— Dane Cook
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So what this is is us, our personalities refined down on to a stage performance. In other words, the way we play is the end…
— Alice Cooper
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New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model.…
— Andrew Cuomo
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The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.
— Andrew Cuomo
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Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really…
— Louis C. K.
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Any performance I do, I give 110 percent.
— DMX
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Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could…
— Ray Dalio
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Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through…
— Ani DiFranco
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