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There are no prizes for average performance.

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Brian Tracy
American - Author
Born: January 5, 1944

Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance.

Brian Tracy

Your earning ability is largely determined by the perception of excellence, quality, and value that others have of you and what you do. The market only pays excellent rewards for excellent performance. It pays average rewards for average performance, and it pays below average rewards or unemployment for below average performance.

Brian Tracy

Wal-Mart hires average people but squeezes above average performance and results out of them.

Michael Bergdahl

If we observe the performance of only those funds that remain active, we will tend to find that the average performance of the surviving funds exceeds that of the market.

Robert Haugen

I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.

Brooks Robinson

Nobel prizes are very special prizes, and it would be great to get one.

Craig Venter

No more prizes for predicting the rain, only prizes for building the arks

Don Edward Beck

There may be certain genres that men dominate, but fiction not so much. The question of prizes is tricky because there are so many prizes.

Emma Donoghue

It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.

Theodore Roosevelt

You can eliminate depression without making someone happy. You can cure anxiety without teaching someone optimism. You can return someone to work without improving their job performance. If all you strive for is diminishing the bad, you'll only attain the average and you'll miss out entirely on the opportunity to exceed the average.

Shawn Achor

I'm not sure that the culture of literary prizes is always a good thing, but while there are literary prizes, it's nice to be nominated.

Sally Rooney

Prizes are like butterflies, colorful butterflies that fly away. I don't believe in prizes much.

Lina Wertmuller

Once you recognize that all documentaries are performance, it's not a matter of 'if' they should be performance. They are performance, and they are performance precisely where people are playing themselves.

Joshua Oppenheimer

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away

Harold Geneen

The fundamental basis of above-average performance in the long run is sustainable competitive advantage.

Warren Buffett

I've been very lucky with prizes. But the thing about prizes is that, when you talk about a prize-winning author, you can be talking about one that is well-regarded but doesn't sell any books.

Jim Crace

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