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# performance20 quotes

PERFORMANCE

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.

growthperformanceCNBC Interview, 2023

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

performanceprivacyRare comment, 2020

In an industry that's 98% male, you either outperform or you disappear. I chose outperform.

performanceresilienceConference talk, 2020

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-itESPN interview, 2019, 2019

We live in a world of instant replay. You've got to perform every day.

accountabilityperformancePress conference

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.

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

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

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

corporate-governanceperformanceWall Street Journal CEO Council, 2010