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"Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away."
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"I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive."
"An announcer is only as good as yesterday's performance."
"Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?"
"Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn't matter if you're brown, back or white."
"Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach."
"You perform as well as you believe yourself capable of performing. You are as effective as you believe yourself to be in whatever you do. You can never be better or different on the outside than you believe yourself to be on the inside."
"I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine."
"My friends joke that I'm dead until I get onstage. I'm dead right now as you're speaking to me."
"I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance."
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"The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication."
"In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality."
"Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves."
"It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality."
"I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them."
"In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later."
"You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work."
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