First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.
One is rated by others as he rates himself.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking." [ , 1940]
First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.
A first-rate story is easily killed by second-rate design.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
Our tree is actually a tree of the short-term interest rate. The average direction in which the short-term interest rate moves depends on the level of the rate. When the rate is very high, that direction is downward; when the rate is very low, it is ...
First rate magician perform first rate magic effects, second rate magician performs third rate magic effects.
I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.
I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'.
Well, we're just now seeing the reductions in mortgage rates. The mortgage rates are based on the ten-year rate and the Fed controls the overnight or the shorter rates.
... economists recognize that, other things equal, cuts in tax rates reduce tax revenues in percentage terms by less than the tax-rate reductions. Similarly, tax-rate increases do not raise tax revenues by as much in percentage terms as the tax-rate ...
Today, credit rating agencies rate companies, countries and bonds.
I don't pretend that I can predict the future value of the growth rate or rate of return.
We're in this period where we're getting good data rates. I would say we're getting data rates that are like the data rates we got when we launched RealAudio in 1995.
When I teach writing, I have a mantra: 'Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.'
When interest rates are high you want the average direction in which interest rates are moving to be downward; when interest rates are low you want the average direction to be upward.
It's often better to read first-rate science fiction than second-rate science - it's far more stimulating, and perhaps no more likely to be wrong.
Opt for a fixed-rate rather than an adjustable-rate mortgage.
