Quotes About Excellence

A person who cares about what he sees and does is a person who's bound to have some characteristic of quality.

Quality isn't a substance. Neither is it a method. It's outside of both. If one builds a house using the plumb-line and spirit-level methods he does so because a straight vertical wall is less likely to collapse and thus has higher Quality than a crooked one. Quality isn't method. It's the goal toward which method is aimed.

If you want to build a factory, or fix a motorcycle, or set a nation right without getting stuck, then classical, structured, dualistic subject-object knowledge, although necessary, isn't enough. You have to have some feeling for the quality of the work. You have to have a sense of what's good.

Your feature work is as good as anything by Richard Harding Davis.

The freedom we must defend is freedom for the practice of these virtues. It is freedom for excellence, the freedom that enables us to master ourselves. It is a freedom that, far from being negated by rigorous standards of scholarship, demands them. It is not the freedom of "if it feels good, do it"; it is, rather, the freedom of self-transcendence, the freedom from slavery to self.

It was the same in just about every trade. Sooner or later someone decided it needed organizing, and the one thing you could be sure of was that the organizers weren't going to be the people who, by general acknowledgment, were at the top of their craft. They were working too hard. To be fair, it generally wasn't done by the worst, neither. They were working hard, too. They had to.

The first one is Good to Great by Jim Collins.

When I ask the classes I teach, How many of you can cook a better hamburger than McDonald's? almost all the students raise their hands. I then ask, So if most of you cook a better hamburger, how come McDonald's makes more money than you? The answer is obvious: McDonald's is excellent at business systems. The reason so many talented people are poor is because they focus on building a better hamburger and know little to nothing about business systems.

Good to Great, Jim Collins

Cómo puedes esperar encontrar una excelente inversión si no sabes qué es una excelente inversión y no estás dispuesto a invertir tiempo para buscarla?

In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well

Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with … making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself.

Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with … making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself.

performing at the level that is essential for the company's success.

To be the best, you have to give everything all the time, then you have to give some more...

I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.

When this body has been so magnificently and artistically created by God, it is only fitting that we should maintain it in good health and harmony by the most excellent and artistic science of Yoga.

Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

Excusing bad programming is a shooting offence, no matter what the circumstances.

It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.

Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence . . . the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe which are concealed by appearances.

It's a good day to do great things!

Quality is better than quantity.