Quotes About Superior Performance

#1. If you're going to do something, strive to do it better than anyone else. Do it all the way. If you're going to half-ass it, why bother?

Ashly Lorenzana

#2. If you find yourself stimulated in any way by your portfolio performance, then you are probably doing something very wrong. A superior portfolio strategy should be intrinsically boring.

William J. Bernstein

#3. Over the long run, superior performance depends on superior learning.

Peter Senge

#4. I have become increasingly convinced that the past records of mutual fund managers are essentially worthless in predicting future success. The few examples of consistently superior performance occur no more frequently than can be expected by chance.

Burton Malkiel

#5. We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it.

Sebastian Faulks

#6. Both renunciation of action and the performance of action lead to Nirvana (Liberation); but these performance of action is superior to renunciation of action. The action of today becomes the destiny of tomorrow.

Chinmayananda Saraswati

#7. Simple, easy actions can protect the health of our water resources and help save drinking water supplies. There is not one individual who cannot help to make a difference to the health of the environment

Ian Kiernan

#8. Enjoying life is far superior to being graded on your performance in life.

Wayne W. Dyer

#9. I suppose it's unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C.S.) Lewis does, what I feel is a craftsman's joy at the sight of a superior performance.

Joy Davidman

#10. If you play to your strengths, you'll turn in a superior performance. Just be yourself.

Yuki Kure

#11. She'd been so hopeful that people would forget her.

Susan Mallery

#12. All but a few of the organizations do not specifically promise to deliver superior investment performance although it is perhaps not unreasonable for the public to draw such an inference from their advertised emphasis on professional management.

Warren Buffett

#13. His mouth made him feel like he was gonna win. Not his hands, I had my hand. He had his lips.

Joe Frazier

#14. I wasn't a model that loved food. I was someone that loved food that started modeling.

Chrissy Teigen

#15. Because investors are not usually penalized for adhering to conventional practices, doing so is the less professionally risky strategy, even though it virtually guarantees against superior performance.

Seth Klarman

#16. Back down a country road the girls are always hot and the beer is ice cold.

Jake Owen

#17. The dynamic tension between daring and serving creates the conditions for superior performance.

Cheryl A. Bachelder

#18. We roared. We were one big animal throat, roaring.

Cory Doctorow

#19. Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.

Georg Simmel

#20. Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.

Michael Porter

#21. So the first thing I learned about how to get superior performance is not to buy stocks that are near their lows, but to buy stocks that are coming out of broad bases and beginning to make new highs ...

William O'Neil

#22. It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something very different.

John Templeton

#23. It's simply not enough to just show up and do your work. Superior performance is not, never has been, nor will it ever be, the by-product of ordinary efforts.

Gary Ryan

#24. The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.

Harold S. Geneen