“While fund performance is unpredictable, the impact of fees is not, .. A 1- percent annual fee will reduce an ending account balance by 17 percent after 20 years.” YearsBalancePercentPerformancesAccountsImpactFundUnpredictableAnnualsFees Author:Arthur Levitt Jr
“Inventory discipline across the brands coupled with an outstanding holiday performance at Victoria's Secret led to a 36 percent increase in fourth-quarter earnings per share at Limited Inc.” SecretShareDisciplinePercentPerformancesIncreaseBrandsHolidayQuartersFourthEarningOutstandingVictoriaInventoryVictoria's SecretFourth Quarter Author:Bill Vaughan
“First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.” KnowsGivingFirstsArtHappensPercentPerformancesPerformance ArtGive 100 Percent Author:Marina Abramovic
“Because 98 percent of our ideas are not great ideas, or everyone would be a billionaire. So yeah. That's something people have had a lot of experience in: being told our idea is bad or our performance is bad. I think that's the one common thread between all working actors is that they have a pretty thick skin - or you'd like to hope. You're used to rejection, that's for sure.” PeopleThinkingIdeasWould BeUsedActorsCommonPercentSkinsPerformancesYeahRejectionThickThreadGreat IdeaBillionaireThick SkinCommon Threads Author:Dax Shepard
“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
“The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.” PeopleMayPercentPerformancesAccountsInteractionPerformance Review Author:W. Edwards Deming
“An aggressive building performance standard for all new buildings, and a set of performance requirements to be met by all buildings before they can be sold (when upgrades can be included in the new mortgage). These should encompass heating and cooling, lighting, and plug loads. Coupled with new efficiency standards for appliances, lights, and furnaces, this should reduce the energy consumption of new buildings by 50 percent, more or less immediately, and go on from there.” ShouldLightEnergyBuildingGoes OnMetsStandardsPercentPerformancesAggressiveLoadConsumptionEfficiencyRequirementsLightingMortgagePlugsFurnacesAppliancesHeatingCoolingEnergy Consumption Author:Denis Hayes
“I like Beyoncé because of her tenacity and strength and for giving 1000 percent to her performances, which is a lost art these days. She's cut from the cloth of some of us that really like to perform are cut from. I'm a big Beyoncé fan.” GivingArtBigsLostCuttingFansPercentPerformancesThese DaysTenacityLost Art Author:MC Hammer
“When someone says to me, do you do stand-up I say absolutely not. I like to think of it as a theatrical performance. With me the show changes maybe five to ten percent every night. Of course, whatever I see in front of me and sometimes I get on a little run about it and it changes the show. And my delivery is such that people who have seen me many times say Gee, I never heard that before. Actually, they have, but I might have changed it around.” PeopleThinkingLittlesSometimesShowsMightRunningNightCoursesFiveHeardFrontsChangedTenPercentPerformancesEvery NightTheatricalDelivery Author:Don Rickles