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"It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance."
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"As a magician you will miss the hundred percent of the applause if you don't perform."
"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."
"He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it."
"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."
"High performers whom exhibit tremendous self-control tend to be burden by their own competence. Studies indicate that being extraordinary competent can place a person under an unusual amount of stress because it raises other people's expectation of them. The more task that an exemplary employee produces with a 'go-getting personality' while maintaining high quality relationships with peers and clients, the more an organization tends to underestimates their actual effort and the more it expects of them. Other people do not comprehend how difficult it is for a high performer to complete multifaceted tasks. They also tend to underestimate how much effort an enterprising person exerts who maintains a positive and pleasant attitude while completing difficult assignments."
"The next day I was in my school's production of All My Sons. This was the performance where I realized something was happening between me and the audience that I hadn't recognized before."
"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."
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"Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization."
"I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality."
"The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication."
"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."
"Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it."
"A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason."
"In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality."
"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."
"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."
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