Evaluation Quotes

At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod you.

Unless strategy evaluation is performed seriously and systematically, and unless strategists are willing to act on the results, energy will be used up defending yesterday.

Is management rational?

Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.

The best teacher for a leader is evaluated experience.

Does the business have a consistent operating history?

I have always cautioned partners that I considered three years a minimum in determining whether we were "performing".

You should just evaluate the work and make your judgments accordingly. That's the way you do it in life and every other subject.

Too many policies, programs and institutions are judged by what they are supposed to do, rather than by what they actually do and the consequences of their actions.

When a new idea comes our way, we must put it on our mental scales and weigh it carefully before deciding its value.

When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the size and nature of his achievements, as compared with the achievements of others in his special line of business - there is no other way.