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“The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.”
Benjamin Franklin
“He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it.”
“Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“It is much more difficult to measure non performance than performance.”
Harold S. Geneen
“Performance enhancing drugs are banned in the Olympics. Ok, we canswing with that. But performance debilitating drugs should not bebanned. Smoke a joint and win the hundred meters, fair play for you.That's pretty damn good. Unless someone's dangling a Mars bar off inthe distance.”
Eddie Izzard
“My great wish is to go on in a strict but silent performance of my duty; to avoid attracting notice, and to keep my name out of the newspapers”
Thomas Jefferson
“How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.”
Gustave Flaubert
“Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.”
Frank Zappa
“Once you've gotten used to performing, you can't give it up.”
Minnie Pearl
