Peter Drucker
Management Consultant, Author
"Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise."
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Criteria
47 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Anton Chekhov
Playwright, Short Story Writer
"I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me."
Rand Paul
Politician
"On vague wording of drone strike criteria: “Are you going to just drop a hellfire missile on Jane Fonda? Are you going to drop a missile on Kent State? That’s gobbledygook."
Edmund Burke
Philosopher, Politician
"The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosopher
"There is no criterion by which to recognize what is a color, except that it is one of our colors."
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"Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me"?"
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"Any item in your wardrobe should satisfy one of two criteria: utility and joy."
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"There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth."
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"Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth."
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"Equality, therefore, becomes the criterion because we can handle all that in process, but we can't handle that as principle without infringing on freedom."
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"There's actually an article in the Washington Post, I don't know whether it's tongue in cheek or not, which said the criterion for being on the list of banned states is that [Donald] Trump doesn't have business interests there."
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