Poor Performance Quotes:

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

- Brian Tracy

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

topic: Leadership, High Standards, Mediocrity, Poor Performance

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

- Neal A. Maxwell

topic: Littles, Avalanches, Pebbles, Poor Performance

Proper preparation prevents poor performance.

- Charlie Batch

source: Twitter post from Feb 21, 2013

topic: Preparation, Planning, Poor, Poor Planning, Poor Performance

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

topic: Attitude, Expectations, Accountability, Poor Performance

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

topic: Stupidity, Disrespect, Mind, Poor Performance, Great Managers

Procrastination is the beginning of poor performance.

- Ron Kaufman

topic: Procrastination, Service Culture, Poor, Poor Performance

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

topic: Gratitude, Attitude, Commitment, Higher Standards, Poor Performance

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

topic: Winning, Reality, Games, Poor Performance

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

topic: Government, Pay, Height, Mismanagement, Poor Performance

Perfect preparation prevents piss-poor performance.

- Woody Hayes

topic: Perfect, Preparation, Poor, Poor Performance

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

- John Lanchester

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

topic: Preparation, Planning, Seven, Poor Performance

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

- Chuck Knox

topic: Practice, Nfl, Perfect, Perfect Practice, Poor Performance

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

topic: Poor Performance, General Motors

Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.

- Don Meyer

topic: Basketball, Planning, Poor, Pitiful, Poor Performance

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

topic: Dollars, Poor, Taxpayers, Poor Performance, Restructuring

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

topic: Running, Country, Jobs, Making Excuses, Poor Performance

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

topic: School, Thinking, Stupidity, Poor Performance

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

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

topic: Winning, Men, Play, Decent Man, Poor Performance