“In most cases the favorable price performance will be accompanied by a well-defined improvement in the average earnings, in the dividend, and in the balance-sheet position. Thus in the long run the market test and the ordinary business test of a successful equity commitment tend to be largely identical.” WellsLongRunningCasesSuccessfulPositionBalanceOrdinaryCommitmentTestsPerformancesAverageImprovementDefinedLong RunsEarningSheetsEquityIdenticalDividendsBalance Sheets Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel
“One of the fundamental preconditions of successful socialist construction is to ensure the people's readiness to defend themselves from the ravages of probable regional or global wars on the basis of the balance of forces generating from the basic contradictions of our epoch.” PeopleWarForceSuccessfulBalanceBasesFundamentalsContradictionConstructionSocialistReadinessEpoch Author:Mengistu Haile Mariam
“To counter-balance the natural humility of motherhood, I garden ... In the garden, more than any place, I really feel successful.” FeelsNaturalSuccessfulHumilityBalanceGardenMotherhoodGardening Author:Glenda Jackson
“How often does the tightrope walker balance when walking across the tightrope? All the time! It is the same thing if you really want to have a successful career, and you want to have a happy home life. It is a matter of balance.” IfsWantDoeMatterHomeCareersSuccessfulBalanceWalkingWalkersHome LifeSuccessful CareerHappy Home Author:Brian Tracy
“But on balance, a performer wants to feel that there's something there which stands out because you put a lot of effort into it, a lot of energy and a lot of yourself into something. I feel pretty successful about some movies I've been in that have not been greeted with a lot of enthusiasm and I do trust my own criteria.” WantFeelsEnergyMy OwnEffortSuccessfulBalanceEnthusiasmPerformersStanding OutCriteria Author:Ben Affleck
“Traditionally, women have a lot of different roles in society. It is very difficult to balance all these roles and at the same time to compete with men. A leading, successful woman has to put in much bigger efforts to be more competent and faster, more dynamic and organized, than a successful man.” MenDifferentDifficultEffortRolesSuccessfulBalanceBiggerFasterOrganizedCompetentSuccessful WomenSuccessful Man Author:Dalia Grybauskaite
“If women decide that their mission, their political career, balances out what they have to give up, they can be and are equally successful as men.” IfsMenGivingPoliticalCareersSuccessfulBalanceGiving UpMissions Author:Dalia Grybauskaite
“Writing is like that. You have to have some basic creative spark, and then, if you have that, I feel like you can learn the production side of it. You can learn how to be a good producer. And I guess it does take a certain balance of those two skills in your head to be a successful showrunner.” IfsFeelsWritingDoeTwoCertainSidesCreativeSuccessfulLike YouBalanceSkillsProductionsProducersSparksCreative Spark Author:Ronald D. Moore
“Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.” SometimesWaitingVoiceSuccessfulListeningBalanceEntrepreneurDrivingStayingPersistentInner VoiceBumpsSuccessful Entrepreneurs Author:Naveen Jain