Underperforming Quotes

#1. For poor parents trapped in dangerous and underperforming urban school systems, it is pretty clear that school choice works.

Arthur Brooks

#2. Show me a chief executive who's on five boards and who lends his or her name, prestige and time to 15 community activities - and I'll show you a company that's underperforming. A chief executive is paid to run the company. That's the CEO's job.

Albert J. Dunlap

#3. I have spent my career making a difference with underperforming assets.

Michael Heisley

#4. Underperforming hospitals or units should accept that they have to improve the service they offer or that patients, quite properly, will go elsewhere.

Andrew Lansley

#5. You wouldn't tolerate an underperforming surgeon in an operating theatre, or a underperforming midwife at your child's birth. Why is it that we tolerate underperforming teachers in the classroom?

Michael Gove

#6. The only time people get pressured into doing reunions to make more money is when the current lineup is underperforming. And by bringing back the other guy, it increases their draw.

Eddie Trunk

#7. Dare we face the question of just how much of the darkness around us is of our own making?

Betty MacDonald

#8. Man is mortal and, as has rightly been said, unexpectedly mortal.

Mikhail Bulgakov

#9. Forgiving was the hardest thing. Sometimes forgiving was the hardest thing in the whole world.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#10. U.S. assistance provides the Jordanian government needed flexibility to pursue policies that are of critical importance to U.S. national security and to foreign policy objectives in the Middle East.

Richard Armitage

#11. Something like reading depends a lot on just having people around you who talk to you and read you books, more than sitting down and, say, doing a reading drill when you're 3 or 4 years old.

Alison Gopnik

#12. If you want to know why Republicans and conservatives are in a political crisis, you need only consider the fact that the Right's deeply held view now boils down to this: Taxes should not go up on the wealthy, and your health benefits should be cut.

John Podhoretz

#13. I haven't got a gun you homicidal pillock!

Jonathan Lynn

#14. Nothing learned is ever quite wasted.

Ellis Peters