“My wife was an opera singer, you know. She bellowed her way through Wagner as a Valkyrie. I married her and made her give up the theatre, to my eternal cost. She was to go on acting for myself alone. A performance at his own expense, lasting for more than twenty years, tends to wear out your spectator.” KnowsWayGivingYearsMadeActingWifeGoes OnCostGiving UpEternalMarriedPerformancesTwentiesMy WifeTheatreSingersLastingExpensesOperaSpectatorsWagnerOpera Singers Book:The Waltz of the Toreadors Source: The Waltz of the Toreadors
“My obligation is to focus on the priorities of classroom instruction, parental involvement and student safety, targeting student performance and eliminating unnecessary administrative costs.” FocusStudentsCostPerformancesSafetyPrioritiesObligationInstructionClassroomUnnecessaryInvolvementParentalEliminatingAdministrativeParental Involvement Author:John R. Leopold
“Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. He thinks he has enough to raise a large and stately edifice; but after he has arranged, compacted and polished, his work turns out to be a very small performance. The authour however like the builder, knows how much labour his work has cost him; and therefore estimates it at a higher rate than other people think it deserves” PeopleThinkingKnowsMenWritingBookEnoughFormTurnsFoundHouseKnow HowPlansBuildingMaterialsHigherCostDeservePerformancesRaisesRateVanityLabourWriting A BookBuilderPolishedEdifice Book:The Journal of a Tour to Corsica and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli Source: The Journal of a Tour to Corsica and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli
“Trust is a powerful accelerator to performance and when trust goes up, speed also goes up while cost comes down - producing what we call a trust dividend.” PowerfulCostPerformancesSpeedDividends Author:Stephen Covey
“People who underestimate their capabilities also bear costs, although, as already noted, these are more likely to take self-limiting rather than aversive forms. By failing to cultivate personal potentialities and constricting their activities, such persons cut themselves off from many rewarding experiences. Should they attempt tasks having evaluative significance, they create internal obstacles to effective performance by approaching them with unnerving self-doubts” PeopleShouldPersonsSelfFormDoubtCuttingFailingBearsCostActivityTasksPerformancesObstaclesInternalsSignificanceCapabilityUnderestimateSelf-doubtSelf EfficacyRewarding Experiences Author:Albert Bandura
“Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.” TwoProblemLastsLawNumbersCostPercentPerformancesThirds Author:Norman Ralph Augustine
“All the equity investors, in total, will surely bear a performance disadvantage per annum equal to the total croupiers' costs they have jointly elected to bear. This is an inescapable fact of life. And it is also inescapable that exactly half of the investors will get a result below the median result after the croupiers' take, which median result may well be somewhere between unexciting and lousy.” WellsMayFactsResultsHalfBearsCostEqualPerformancesInvestorsEquityDisadvantagesFacts Of LifeMedian Author:Charlie Munger
“Brasil used to have - and still has, in some ways - a strong culture of showing off. And that's not only in sneakers and streetwear. People like to show how much their sneakers cost, usually by rocking performance models with visible technology, like Nike Shox, adidas Springblade and ASICS Noosa. It's like a status symbol for someone that wants to show to the world they "succeeded in life," no matter how rich they actually are.” PeopleWorldWayWantStillsMatterShowsUsedCultureStrongTechnologyRichCostModelsPerformancesSymbolsVisibleShowing OffSneakersNikeStatus SymbolAdidas Author:Ricardo Nunes