All Quotes

# performance — 20 quotes

PERFORMANCE

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Every elite athlete, every CEO, every high-performer who tries the Pod becomes a customer for life. Word of mouth among overachievers is the most powerful marketing channel that exists.

growthperformance— CNBC Interview, 2023
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Being a prince opens doors. But keeping them open requires performance. Markets don't care about your title — they care about your returns.

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Most blockchains finalize transactions in minutes. Avalanche does it in under one second. That's not an incremental improvement. That's a different category of technology.

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The Air Sapphire does 0-60 in 1.89 seconds. That makes it the fastest production sedan ever made. Not the fastest electric sedan — the fastest sedan. Period. The age of compromise is over.

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The web should be fast by default. If your framework makes you work to achieve performance you picked the wrong framework.

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A website should load in under a second. If it does not you have a technology problem not a content problem.

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I made 52 percent in 2008 while the world was ending. That year taught me that being right and being popular are never the same thing.

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160,000 transactions per second. That is not a theoretical maximum. That is what we built.

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I've never been afraid of big moments. I get butterflies. I get nervous and anxious, but I think those are all good signs.

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Bitcoin is the best-performing asset of the last decade. At some point, ignoring that becomes intellectual dishonesty.

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Performance reviews shouldn't be annual torture. They should be continuous, useful, and actually improve performance.

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If you measure people operations with the same rigor as financial operations, companies perform better. The data proves it.

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We don't have a public website. We don't give interviews. The returns are the only marketing we need.

performanceprivacy— Rare comment, 2020
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In an industry that's 98% male, you either outperform or you disappear. I chose outperform.

performanceresilience— Conference talk, 2020
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When I came to LA, people said I was retiring. I scored 52 goals in 52 games. Then they stopped saying I was retiring.

performanceprove-it— ESPN interview, 2019, 2019
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We live in a world of instant replay. You've got to perform every day.

accountabilityperformance— Press conference
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The winning blockchain will be the one that's fast enough and cheap enough for real-world use. Not the one with the best narrative.

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Blockchains should be as fast as the hardware allows. Anything less is a design failure.

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Being the only woman in the room is uncomfortable. But being the person who makes the best call, that is what matters.

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When you double a company's revenue and people still call it a failure, you have to ask: what were they really measuring?

corporate-governanceperformance— Wall Street Journal CEO Council, 2010