Performance Benchmarks Quotes

There is a tendency in all of us to ask for better statistical performance. There is a tendency to impose quotas behind which usually lies imposition of pressure to achieve improved statistics.

My liking for a team isn't based on just how good it was, but how good was it in relation to how good it should have been.

If Leander Paes can be playing in Grand Slams at 44 and Narain Karthikeyan race at 40 and be so successful at it, I see no reason why I can't play at 34. They are my motivation, as they have set targets and standards for people like us to achieve.

Standards violated are better than no standards at all.

The objective is to be competitive from March onwards.

Meeting specifications is not enough.

Everybody that has a measurement, whether it's in teaching or whether it's in your job, you're always worried how you will be measured.

Hedge fund managers charge so much more than mutual fund managers; alpha is even harder to come by. They end up selling a variety of things beyond mere outperformance.

As with marathon runs and lengths of toilet paper, there had to be standards to measure up to.