Quotes About Underperformance

#1. You worry just as much about great performance as you do about underperformance.

Mary Callahan Erdoes

#2. The strategy of buying what's in favor is a fool's errand, ensuring long-term underperformance. Only by standing against the prevailing winds - selectively, but resolutely - can an investor prosper over time. But for a while, a value investor typically underperforms.

Seth Klarman

#3. Most of the problems that plague our society - addiction, overeating, crime, domestic violence, prejudice, debt, unwanted pregnancy, educational failure, underperformance at school and work, lack of savings, failure to exercise - are in some degree a failure of self-control.

Roy Baumeister

#4. ...there should be no place in a portfolio for hedge funds. There are lots of reasons, but the main one is simple: Investing in hedge funds is a great way to increase the odds of underperformance.

Peter Mallouk

#5. Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.

Peter Drucker

#6. Buffett also teaches investors that there is one important caveat to the multiyear test: Underperformance in the late stages of a speculative bull market is highly likely. It's a caveat that he repeats to this day. We

Jeremy Miller

#7. The cost of performing well in bad times can be relative underperformance in good times.

Seth Klarman

#8. Money managers have to account for their actions to their shareholders, which means they have an undue fear of underperformance. We invest only our own money. Our investments are driven by optimism, not fear.

Richard Chandler

#9. Dusk was falling quickly. It was just after 7 P.M., and the month was October.

Patricia Highsmith

#10. It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are disguised biography - but if you write your biography, it's equally assumed you're lying your head off.

Margaret Atwood

#11. They sowed the duller vegetables first, and a pleasant feeling of righteous fatigue stole over them as they addressed themselves to the peas.

E. M. Forster

#12. Never place a period where God's placed a comma.

Gracie Allen

#13. We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.

Rick Warren

#14. No one has ever abandoned a belief because he was forced to do so.

Hillary Clinton

#15. Well, technically we make money off of the guys trying to get laid by the sexy drunk girls." He

Eve Jagger

#16. Damn it! This chick runs with vampires!

Stephenie Meyer

#17. Wildness had never been a part of her life. Home, work, home, work. That's all her life had consisted of, really. She'd told Maddox that she'd been glad for her solitude, bu the truth was, there were times she'd been starved for touch. Any touch.

Gena Showalter

#18. In the winter you may want the summer; in the summer, you may want the autumn; in the autumn, you may want the winter; but only in the spring you dream and want no other season but the spring!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#19. Sometimes we are so caught up in the disappointment of plans gone astray that we fail to recognize the potentially new options that might now exist.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#20. The thing I noticed, have learned the most about directors, is: when they're very confident in themselves, they're open to creativity from other people. If they're scared or nervous, then they shut off and nobody's ideas [count].

Geena Davis

#21. The best way [to survive] the red carpet is by wearing Ugg boots. But unfortunately, I have not yet managed to persuade the people who style me at these times to let me do that.

Emma Thompson

#22. An inch of gold can't buy an inch of time

Nicole Mones