High Performers Quotes

We have to get to a point in this country where our top players are seeking out the most challenging environments.

Great performers welcome pressure.

Everyone procrastinates. The difference between high performers and low performers is largely determined by what they choose to procrastinate on. Since you must procrastinate anyway, decide today to procrastinate on low-value activities.

If you look at high performers they are always the most passionate - in any industry.

Not only in the creative world but also in the sports world. The most successful achievers in sports are people that are really driven and have that spirit of hunger.

People who are geniuses, once they get going, you really have to keep up.

Every great general and warrior from the beginning of time was high.

Ninety to ninety-five percent of people will withdraw to the comfort zone when what they try doesn't work. Only that small percentage, 5 or 10 percent, will continually improve themselves; they will continually push themselves out into the zone of discomfort, and these are always the highest performers in every field.

A-plus players like to work together and they don't like it if you tolerate B work.

We want experts, our finest people. We don't want people that are B level, C level, D level. We have to get our absolute best and the recommendations have to be a combination of defensive technologies tailored to specific agencies and every other discipline involved.

As for whether I am a 'new age guru', I am not at all. I help companies build employees who lead without a title and become high performers.

Done right, a performance review is one of the best opportunities to encourage and support high performers and constructively improve your middle- and lower-tier workers.

One of the challenges of having exceptionally high quality talent is that they're constantly restless, and they're constantly on the lookout for opportunities.

I don't think there is any serious evidence that we need to be paying people more than 100 times the average wage in order to get high-performing managers.

You need unstoppable people. You want people that are just going to get it done.

Be intensely result-oriented in everything you do. This is a key characteristic of high performers.

Not everybody is created equal, and it's important for companies to identify those high potentials and treat them differently, accelerate their development and pay them more. That process is so incredibly important to developing first-class leadership in a company.