Outperforming Quotes

#1. The hidden benefit of antifragility is that you can guess worse than random and still end up outperforming.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. There is no doubt that the increasing numbers of women in the economy has helped fuel significant growth everywhere. And economies that are making the shift more effectively and rapidly are dramatically outperforming those that have not.

Hillary Clinton

#3. Outperforming the market with low volatility on a consistent basis is an impossibility. I outperformed the market for 30-odd years, but not with low volatility.

George Soros

#4. Girls are increasingly outperforming boys in the classroom, earning about 57 percent of the undergraduate and 60 percent of the master's degrees in the United States.

Sheryl Sandberg

#5. Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

#6. Outperforming the majority of investors requires doing what they are not doing. Buying when others have despaired, and selling when they are full of hope, takes fortitude.

John Templeton

#7. Gravity keeps your body down from flying high. On the other hand, nothing can keep you down from outperforming yourself and from continually growing to become excellent.

Assegid Habtewold

#8. Ideas combined with courage can change the world.

David Litwack

#9. It's so easy, when you never meet people, when you never know the Earth itself ... it's easy to forget why Earth is worth saving. Why the world of people might be worth the price you pay.

Orson Scott Card

#10. And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.

Daniel Defoe

#11. Babies who have not yet been taught to speak any language are the only race of the earth, the race of man: all the rest is pretence, what we call civilization, hatred, fear, desire for strength.

William, Saroyan

#12. Just stay still, if you stay still it can't find you. That's sharks, you idiot. Sharks and dinosaurs. This isn't Jurassic Park.

Kelley Armstrong

#13. As a child, I read a great many books in which animals and birds played significant roles, not only in the narrative itself, but also in creating the emotional and psychological atmosphere of that narrative - the imaginative furniture, as it were, in which any story unfolds.

John Burnside

#14. The anomaly is that, as a publishing venture, comics are not doing very well. As a venture that supplies other media, they're incredible.

Dennis O'Neil

#15. I stepped inside the front hall and kicked off my snow boots. I slammed the door behind me, making the dark ruby and emerald glass shake in the small leaded panes. I slid purposely on the hall rug, causing it to bunch and crinkle on the slippery polished oak of the floor.

Margaret Laurence