Shortfall Quotes

A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I'm about $100,000 short.

It took us three years to even come close to catching up with the demand a little bit.

Not failure, but low aim, is the crime.

An inch in a miss is as good as an ell.

Drought never brought dearth.

Enough is ever-receding.

I've played so many matches in my career so far where I played unbelievable, came up just short.

… minor incidents—the kind you can never really foresee—combine to lower the general level of performance, so that one always falls short of the intended goal.

I learned one thing from jumping motorcycles that was of great value on the golf course, the putting green especially: Whatever you do, don't come up short.

Because I couldn't go for three.

When you lose there are things that you don't do well.

The gap in India has always been between the promise and the execution.

Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.

Im very disappointed that we missed our (earnings per share) growth target this quarter due to the confluence of a number of issues that we now understand and are urgently addressing. I accept full responsibility for the shortfall.

I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace on the canvas with all the things he cannot do. That is what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call 'personality,' or maybe even 'pain.'

I once delivered a simple ball, which I was told, had it gone far enough, would have been considered a wide

What I see in the corporate sector is very clearly an issue of a major shortfall in the issue of, what some people call confidence, but whatever you want to call it. Clearly people are looking out in the very distant future and they are saying that it is too complex.

The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance

I was $4,000 short on my first payroll.