Benchmark Quotes

#1. The cacao content is a wrapper's most important datum, and the acceptable benchmark is seventy per cent. The figure is a measure of 'cocoa mass.'

Bill Buford

#2. The Burgess Shale is not unique, but for those who study evolution and fossils it has become something of an icon. It provides a reference point and a benchmark, a point of common discussion and an issue of universal scientific interest.

Simon Conway Morris

#3. You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits, but you have to have your own sound. That's your benchmark, that's your sound. I also play a Black Beauty. It sounds amazing.

Dan Hawkins

#4. We won't ever see another one like Paul Scholes. He is a legend and a real benchmark. He is not interested in the modern-day footballer's life off the pitch, but he is a world-class player on it

Darren Fletcher

#5. In football, you can never say anything is certain. The benchmark is 38-40 points. That has always been the case. That will never change.

Steve Bruce

#6. My biggest mentor has been the Benchmark partnership. We have six partners and a flat structure, and everyone is paid the exact same paycheck. It's a team model versus an individual model.

Peter Fenton

#7. My films have always been considered the benchmark in action. I have a big responsibility to shoulder.

Sunny Deol

#8. We want to support our troops because they didn't make the decision to go there ... but I don't think it should be open-ended. We ought to have a benchmark where the administration has to come back and give us a report.

Edward Kennedy

#9. Learning to cook in the 1990s, I thought 'proper olives' meant black. The benchmark was Kalamata from Greece: purple-black with an almost mushroomy depth of flavour. Other fine examples were tiny Coquilles from Nice and plump round Tanches from Nyons.

Bee Wilson

#10. When I was a young comic just starting out, I was very cautious, as I didn't want to alienate people. George Carlin's bravery became a benchmark. I became perfectly fine with alienating some people in the audience. That just comes with the territory.

Paul Provenza

#11. If some actress thinks she is sexy and she can dance, it's her choice. I do what I want to do, and I set my own benchmark. I will never compare myself with anyone.

Preity Zinta

#12. Always give your best; today's great work is tomorrow's benchmark.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#13. When you think of dog movies, that genre, Old Yeller is sort of the benchmark and you hope that you can raise your game up to that.

Jennifer Aniston

#14. Remember, benchmark performance
beta
can be had for virtually free; alpha is what active managers are paid to generate.

Paul McCulley

#15. The law is not a checklist we keep; it is a benchmark we fail.

Timothy Keller

#16. Theo Wanne has done it again!!!!!! He has brought a new dimension in mouthpieces that will not only stand the test of time, but will be a benchmark mouthpiece for many, many years to come! The bar has been raised.

Jeff Coffin

#17. My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.

Arabella Weir

#18. There's no benchmark for how life's "supposed" to happen. There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, it's up to you how you respond to it.

Isaac Marion

#19. The People's Bank of China (PBOC) said on its website it was lowering its benchmark, one-year lending rate by 25 basis points to 5.1 percent from May 11. It cut the benchmark deposit rate by the same amount to 2.25 percent. China's economy

Anonymous

#20. Time and experience have taught me that fame and money very rarely go to the worthy, by the way - hence we shouldn't ever be too impressed by either of those impostors. Value folk for who they are, how they live and what they give - that's a much better benchmark.

Bear Grylls

#21. We still haven't played Madison Square Garden. That's a benchmark. Something will have gone seriously wrong if we don't play Madison Square Garden for this album.

Dan Hawkins

#22. Every show on television has a downward trend because there are so many more things to watch. You can only deal with what is the benchmark of a hit series and 'Survivor' clearly remains a hit series.

Mark Burnett

#23. Many entrepreneurs have shifted their focus to pursuing VC funding as a primary strategic priority instead of concentrating on generating value for their users. This is worrisome because raising capital alone is misleading as a benchmark for success.

Jon Oringer

#24. Her eyelashes made me hard. That was a new benchmark for me, I had to admit.

Sierra Simone

#25. Baptism is the critical priesthood ordinance which opens the door to eternal life for each one of us. It is the benchmark from which we count our many blessings because this is when our accountability to follow Jesus Christ and live his Gospel begins.

Elaine L. Jack

#26. We've created the best indoor winter facility in the world. Having set that benchmark, it could inspire a whole new generation throughout the world.

Phil Taylor

#27. Did that kiss nearly destroy the memory of all other kisses, and become the benchmark against which all future kisses would be measured?

Julie Anne Long

#28. The Timeline of a Life being Long or Short, is Computed on the Benchmark of How You Live It ...

Saurabh Dudeja

#29. Judi Dench has always been the benchmark for me. Everything I have seen her do is incredible. I also really admire Cate Blanchett. In terms of people I have worked with, there is no one more admirable than Hugh Jackman, for his spirit, energy, generosity and hard work.

Laura Donnelly

#30. I've witnessed first hand the impact the Benchmark team has had on new ventures, and I believe their commitment to the entrepreneur and dedication to building companies of lasting value really set the firm apart.

Mitch Lasky

#31. Mattia's voice no longer stirred anything in his stomach, but he was aware of the idea of him and always would be, as the only true benchmark for everything that had come afterward.

Paolo Giordano

#32. If mediocrity is your benchmark, you always sit on the bench!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#33. Affluence isn't affluence at all. Hong Kong is the benchmark; everybody else's affluence is mere tat. Until you've experienced that perfume-washed air as polarized glass doors embrace you into a luxury hotel's plush interior, you've only had a dud replica of the real thing.

Jonathan Gash

#34. I do not like the idea that a Russian company cannot be successful without Western experience. I think that, at the end of the day, it is a question of bringing benchmarks from other countries. So far, the golden benchmark has been the West.

Maelle Gavet

#35. Being in the consumer business helps us groom talent in areas like marketing, finance and logistics. We can benchmark our outsourcing business to our consumer business and its best practices.

Azim Premji

#36. Benchmark your performance against your best competitors. Think how you can beat them next time.

Brian Tracy

#37. Snapchat's ramp reminded us of another mobile app Benchmark had the good fortune to back at an early stage: Instagram.

Mitch Lasky

#38. Instead of focusing the traditional planning cycles where companies benchmark their businesses against existing competition, teams need to be developed to foster internal change and disruption. Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.

Jay Samit

#39. I didn't realize how slow my four-year-old MacBook was until the web team wanted to start using it as the benchmark for a slow computer experience.

Chris Milk

#40. Americans could once boast proudly that their system set the benchmark for the world; the United States was the rule of law. But now what we see is the rule of lawyers, which is something different.

Niall Ferguson

#41. Humans have a global benchmark-standard of conduct that called humanity

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#42. We don't really want to work for a corporation; however, we do aspire to one day make a barbecue sauce that doubles as a cologne, and we would like to promote that ourselves. We would like to create a cologne barbecue sauce benchmark of success.

Charles Lincoln Neal

#43. If you say someone is good, at something, what is your benchmark? Who are you comparing them with? When evaluating capability, or success, in anything, don't listen to mumbo-jumbo rubbish.

Strive Masiyiwa