Quotes about Excellence
I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
- William Hazlitt
Strive to accomplish the very best you are capable of. Nothing less than your best effort will suffice.
- John Wooden
If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory, ' I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?
- Bill Gates
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
- Henry Ford
There is no way of making a business successful that can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service.
- Andrew Carnegie
Man was designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.
- Zig Ziglar
Focus on building the best possible business. If you are great, people will notice and opportunities will appear.
- Mark Cuban
Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.
- Aristotle
I think about what's the best way to serve people. In business, if you do more for others than anybody else does, you dominate. That's the bottom line.
- Tony Robbins
My motto has always been: Only first class business and that in a first class way
- David Ogilvy
Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi Jr.
Socrates: "The corruption of the best things are the worst things." Or, "The best, when corrupted, become the worst." As one of your English poets has said, "Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.
- Peter Kreeft