Poor Performance Quotes

• Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.

  Brian Tracy

  Leadership, High Standards, Mediocrity

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Effective Leadership”, p.9, Jaico Publishing House

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• Our little pebble of poor performance helps to start, or to sustain, an avalanche.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Littles, Avalanches, Pebbles

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• Proper preparation prevents poor performance.

  Charlie Batch

  Preparation, Poor Planning, Performances

  Twitter post from Feb 21, 2013

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• If you are building a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm, then the group will address poor performance and attitudes.

  Henry Cloud

  Attitude, Expectations, Accountability

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• In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Stupidity, Disrespect, Mind

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• Procrastination is the beginning of poor performance.

  Ron Kaufman

  Procrastination, Service Culture, Poor

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• As a leader, parent, or friend - don't let someone's poor attitude and poor performance hinder your commitment to holding them to higher standards. You don't need to make the person 'wrong' for the way they're behaving, simply point out that the behavior is ineffective.

  Hal Elrod

  Gratitude, Attitude, Commitment

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• When you win, sometimes it overshadows a poor performance.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Winning, Nba

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• To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement.

  Jim Gibbons

  Government, Dollars, Bonus

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• Perfect preparation prevents piss-poor performance.

  Woody Hayes

  Perfect, Preparation, Poor

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• The seven Ps: Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent Piss-Poor Performance

  John Lanchester

  Preparation, Planning, Seven

  John Lanchester (2012). “Capital”, p.308, Faber & Faber

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• Remember your six P's - Perfect Practice Prevents Piss Poor Performance.

  Chuck Knox

  Practice, Nfl, Perfect

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• The Obama administration asked General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner to step down, and he agreed. This is good news for Obama; the last time he tried to get someone to quit, it took months -- and even then, he had to promise her a job as secretary of state. ... According to the government, Rick Wagoner was forced to resign because of poor performance. That's embarrassing -- run an organization that loses billions of dollars and then get fired by a guy who heads up an organization that loses trillions of dollars.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Jobs, Organization

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• Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Planning, Poor

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• In business, poor performance leads to bankruptcy or, at a minimum, a restructuring of the company. In American education, failure entitles the bankrupt system to even more taxpayer dollars.

  Cal Thomas

  Dollars, Poor, Taxpayers

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• The fact is that I'm interested in getting on with my job of holding the Government to account and I think that the Government should get on with the job of effectively running the country and not making excuses for poor performance, not lowering expectations. Their job is to deliver on their election commitments.

  Tony Abbott

  Running, Country, Jobs

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• I think we can rule out 'mixed brain dominance' as a cause of your poor performance at school, Charlie Brown" "Have you ruled out stupidity?" "Peanuts", Charles M

  Charles M. Schulz

  School, Thinking, Stupidity

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• Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste; some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Winning, Men, Play

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (2003). “Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society : Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical Dialogues”

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• It's not like we have not had close games. We've just been able to win them, and as a result, the reality sometimes doesn't set in that you're weak in certain areas or you're not doing certain things well. ... When you win, sometimes it overshadows a poor performance.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Winning, Reality, Games

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