In the 10 or so years since e-sourcing technology first made its way into grocers' procurement departments, the results secured have been remarkable: frequent double-digit savings in both direct and indirect categories, new process efficiencies, higher procurement contract compliance, dramatically lower savings leakage - and the list goes on.
I feel no shame at being found still owning a share when the bottom of the market comes…I would go much further than that. I should say that it is from time to time the duty of a serious investor to accept the depreciation of his holdings with equanimity and without reproaching himself. … An investor…should be aiming primarily at long-period results, and should be solely judged by these.
If you do the bare minimum, expect bare minimum results. You want to be great, work to be great. Nothing just happens
Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair.
Even when there are no results. Things you can and can't do. Things you can and can't win. Even if there's none of that, I'll still try my hardest.
You can't always expect a certain result, but you can expect to do your best.
Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.
Results are nothing; the energies which produce them and which again spring from them are everything.
Money is a short-term result that incentivizes short-term decision making.
Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.
Dreams are the result of a million choices, a billion failures, and a few successes.
Low self esteem results when the inner critic prevails.
These results add up to perhaps the most important investment lesson of all that can be drawn from this week's market anniversaries: Predicting turns in the market is incredibly difficult to do consistently well. That means that, if your investment strategy going forward is dependent on your anticipating major market turning points, your chances of success are extremely low.
Invention is not so much the result of labor as of judgment.
The results of "engaged" companies vs "disengaged" companies are staggering. Getting workers to be more engaging with their coworkers and customers can produce huge results.
I place this day, my life, my loved ones, my work in the Lord's hands. There is no harm in the Lord's hands, only good. Whatever happens, whatever results, if I am in the Lord's hands it is the Lord's will and it is good.
Self-hate is a form of mental slavery that results in poverty, ignorance, and crime.
The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.
The results will be very good.
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.