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"It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance."
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"It never hurts a fool to appear before anaudience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling."
"I attended a symposium to hear Shilagh Mirgain, Ph.D. speak on Mindful Leadership. Throughout her program, I made sure to make eye contact and smile to support, affirm, and engage with her presentation. When audience members do this for me, it adds an extra punch of dynamic energy that enriches my presentations and improves my performance."
"I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning."
"Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it."
"He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it."
"I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally... To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary."
"Save yourselves!" Percy warned. "It is too late for us!" Then he gasped and pointed to the spot where Frank was hiding. "oh no! Frank is turning into a crazy dolphin!" Nothing happened. "I said," Percy repeated, "Frank is turning into a crazy dolphin." Frank stumbled out of nowhere, making a big show of grabbing his throat. "oh no," he said, like he was reading from a teleprompter, "I am turning into a crazy dolphin."
"The real secret of magic lies in the performance."
"He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace."
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"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."
"Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented."
"I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them."
"A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason."
"Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away."
"The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication."
"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."
"Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it."
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