Past Performance Quotes

The competition for World Cup places is massive, and you can't just rest on what you've done in the past or anything like that.

Teams in the past have been slow starters yet gone on to win the World Cup.

He’ll make a fine President. He was the best clerk who ever served under me.

We cannot assume that past successes will insure future successes.

The biggest mistake investors make is to believe that what happened in the recent past is likely to persist. They assume that something that was a good investment in the recent past is still a good investment. Typically, high past returns simply imply that an asset has become more expensive and is a poorer, not better, investment.

I have no use whatsoever for projections or forecasts. They create an illusion of apparent precision. The more meticulous they are, the more concerned you should be. We never look at projections, but we care very much about, and look very deeply at, track records. If a company has a lousy track record, but a very bright future, we will miss the opportunity.

If you're very talented and keep winning, you'll do just fine. It may take a while. But the talent is hard to identify and talent is hard to tell from luck. There's an awful lot of luck in this business. Past performance is not helpful in judging future performance.

Go back and watch my old footage, man. Go back and watch my old fights. I knocked people out at 170 pounds.

If you win games, you think things are comfortable, and they are not. The best players don't think that way, and that's why they get to where they are: they don't worry about what has gone on and think only about the next game.

As far as I'm concerned, any work you get is because people have heard other work you've done.

It was very clear I wasn't giving my all in the past - not even close.

I think my greatest victory was every time I walked out there, I gave it everything I had. I left everything out there. That's what I'm most proud of. I can't go win Wimbledon anymore, so if what I've done in the past is not good enough, let it go. Because I'm certainly not sitting around thinking about it.

I am not a newcomer, you know, so I want to be judged for what I did when I was prime minister last time in Italy and president of the European Commission for more than five years.

Not to be narcissistic, but I truly believe in order to make yourself better, you should see what you did before and what was good about that and what wasn't - same way a football team plays a game and then they go back and watch film.

Any Wall Street advertising that does not go into the boring details of methodology is most likely to be pushing past performance.

In every mutual fund prospectus, in every sales promotional folder, and in every mutual fund advertisement (albeit in print almost too small to read), the following warning appears: "Past performance is no guarantee of future results."

Mutual funds with superior performance records often falter.

The first principle of contract negotiations is don't remind them of what you did in the past - tell them what you're going to do in the future.

Just because something's been good in the past doesn't mean it will continue to be good.

Your history of work is as important as the work you'll do tomorrow.

Whether something is a success or not has never had much to do with what you do next.

I think we have played like a playoff team for some time. We can still do better. The key thing right now is to look forward, not behind you.

When you look back in history and see other fighters coming back, it's never really been good for them.

Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success.

We make too much out of past performance, and it's very misleading to investors. It causes them to move money around. They buy a fund that's hot and then it turns cold as all hot funds eventually do. And then they get out. Well, buying at the high and selling at the low isn't going to leave you a satisfied shareholder, right?