#mises

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#explanations #only #performance #promises #reality

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#explanations #i #i think #immutable #law

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#explanations #immutable #law #only #performance

It is hard to cement any relations with any country based on promises that may not be deliverable. ↗

— Jim Leach

#based #cement #country #hard #may

Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology. ↗

— Arthur Levitt

#advancing #competing #demands #efforts #fiat

Since Social Security faces a large gap between what it promises younger workers and what it can afford to pay them, private savings will likely need to play a larger role in retirement planning for younger workers. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#between #faces #gap #large #larger

I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psychologically important to people when they're famous to be the only famous person they know. ↗

— John Mayer

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When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#because #beliefs #compromises #did #different

While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life. ↗

— Josh McDowell

#contend #future #god #guilt #leave

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many. ↗

— James McGreevey

#american politics #benighted #career #closet #compromises