Ranking Quotes - Page 2

• When I release something, I'm like, "OK, I want it to be the best." When I release my fragrance, I want it to be the number one fragrance. I don't want it to be like, "Oh yeah, you got ninth on the rankings."

  Justin Bieber

  Numbers, Want, Being The Best

  "Interview: Justin Bieber Talks About His Top 5 Rappers, Selena Gomez, and Growing Up In The Game". Interview with Joe la Puma, www.complex.com. March 30, 2012.

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• You can't buy ATP points to buy your ranking. It's not possible; otherwise Gulbis would be No. 1 in the world.

  Tommy Haas

  Would Be, World

  "Tommy Haas - second round". Press conference, www.wimbledon.com. June 28, 2013.

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• If television once could be seen as ranking among a number of vehicles for conveying expression or information from which we could choose, we no longer have that choice: the televisual has become an intrinsic and determining element of our cultural formation.

  Philip Auslander

  Expression, Numbers, Choices

  Philip Auslander (2002). “Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture”, p.2, Routledge

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• I have argued that a religion or a philosophy cannot speak about facts of the world - if it does, it is now or will eventually be wrong - but it can and should speak about the relevance and ranking of facts and observations.

  Erik Naggum

  Philosophy, Doe, World

  "Philosophy of Lisp programmers". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. June 22, 2002.

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• A manager of people needs to understand that all people are different. This is not ranking people. He needs to understand that the performance of anyone is governed largely by the system that he works in, the responsibility of management.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Responsibility, People, Different

  "The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education". Book by W. Edwards Deming, 1993.

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• The qualifying system helps the top guys like Sergio Garcia, who play most of their golf in the U.S. They can rely on the world rankings and just play their four extra events [with the four majors and three World Golf Championship events counting as seven European events]. But for the other guys it's tough, and I don't know if that can be changed. It is a tricky situation.

  Luke Donald

  Golf, Play, Guy

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• Success, instead of giving freedom of choice, becomes a way of life. There's no country I've been to where people, when you come into a room and sit down with them, so often ask you, "What do you do?" And, being American, many's the time I've almost asked that question, then realized it's good for my soul not to know. For a while! Just to let the evening wear on and see what I think of this person without knowing what he does and how successful he is, or what a failure. We're ranking everybody every minute of the day.

  Arthur Miller

  Success, Country, Thinking

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.226, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Im the ranking Republican on the foreign aid appropriations subcommittee, so I know Tunisia well.

  Lindsey Graham

  Tunisia, Republican, Aids

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• The bad thing about the [tennis] calendar is how it is made and obligates you to play tournaments all year. If you want to achieve the most you can (and) go as high up (in the rankings) as you can, you have to play from the start to the finish because there are important tournaments from the beginning to the end.

  Rafael Nadal

  Years, Play, Tennis

  Source: in.reuters.com

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• If I would go out against some of these players and see them as their ranking, then I probably would have already lost before I even stepped on the court.

  Johanna Konta

  Player, Lost, Court

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• I mean, you know, while I'm acting on stage I'm ranking quite high, but in a room with Barack Obama I'm probably into negative digits. I never feel very famous.

  David Tennant

  Mean, Acting, Negative

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• While the ranking of individual years can be affected by chaotic weather patterns, the long-term trends are attributable to drivers of climate change that right now are dominated by human emissions of greenhouse gases...

  Gavin Schmidt

  Change, Years, Data

  "Global warming made 2014 a record hot year - in animated graphics" by Dana Nuccitelli, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2015.

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• When Serena Williams is number one, its hard to think of being number one, but still I have confidence that I can win more titles and reach a higher ranking.

  Simona Halep

  Confidence, Winning, Thinking

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• Here's some news from Afghanistan. We're sending more troops to seal up the borders. Can we try that here? Three months, 12,000 pounds of bombs and billions and billions of dollars and the highest ranking enemy we've captured so far is an American.

  David Letterman

  Enemy, Trying, Troops

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• We recognize caste in dogs because we rank ourselves by the familiar dog system, a ladderlike social arrangement wherein one individual outranks all others, the next outranks all but the first, and so on down the hierarchy. But the cat system is more like a wheel, with a high-ranking cat at the hub and the others arranged around the rim, all reluctantly acknowledging the superiority of the despot but not necessarily measuring themselves against one another.

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

  Dog, Cat, Hierarchy

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas (2001). “The Tribe of Tiger”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one's companion.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Queens, Power, Honey

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• I decided that I want to live the rest of my life happy with what I'm doing. So when I play tennis again, I have to play it for the right reason. I don't want to play to get my No. 1 ranking back. I don't want to play for the attention, or to earn more. I don't even want to play because the world wants to see me do it, even though it's nice to know that the world is interested. I only want to play because I love the game, which is the reason I began to play at age seven in the first place.

  Monica Seles

  Nice, Happy Life, Games

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• In the complete overall history of tennis, I figure I'll be worth a sentence or two.... That's why my place in the all-time rankings means so very little to me, because I know I won't be anybody's number one, and it's that same old thing: if you're not number one, then what does it really matter?

  Billie Jean King

  Mean, Winning, Old Things

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• When Yelp first took off, our rankings on Google would fluctuate wildly.

  Jeremy Stoppelman

  Google, Firsts

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• If an incompetent chieftain is removed, seldom do we appoint his highest-ranking subordinate to his place

  Attila the Hun

  Subordinates, Incompetent, Ifs

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• I don't pick my presidents because they were great presidents. I'm not much interested in ranking presidents and who is the best and who is the worst. I am much more inclined to be interested in them if they had an interesting life and if they were a complete person - and by that I mean they also had flaws and failings.

  David McCullough

  Mean, Interesting, President

  Source: belmontvision.com

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• My house has too many distractions. There's the email. There's checking my Amazon ranking. I know I'm the only author who's ever done that, ever. There's the fax. Too many distractions. I like to go out and write.

  Harlan Coben

  Writing, House, Email

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• One of the things that came out of the campaign, as I recall, was a high ranking [Hillary's] Clinton official, I believe, sent their password via email. We also need to learn how to protect our own information. And I think that's important as well.

  Rand Paul

  Believe, Thinking, Important

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Frequent comparative ranking can only reinforce a short-term investment perspective. It is understandably difficult to maintain a long-term view when, faced with the penalties for poor short-term performance, the long-term view may well be from the unemployment line ... Relative-performance-oriented investors really act as speculators. Rather than making sensible judgments about the attractiveness of specific stocks and bonds, they try to guess what others are going to do and then do it first.

  Seth Klarman

  Views, Perspective, Long

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• The big picture is: the main thing you should be concerned about in the future are incremental returns on capital going forward. As it turns out, past history of a good return on capital is a good proxy for this but obviously not foolproof. I think this is an area where thoughtful analysis can add value to any simple ranking/screening strategy such as the magic formula. When doing in depth analysis of companies, I care very much about long term earnings power, not necessarily so much about the volatility of that earnings power but about my certainty of "normal" earnings power over time.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Thoughtful, Past, Simple

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