Quotes About Excellence

El liderazgo no tiene nada que ver con las ventajas materiales. El liderazgo tiene que ver con la excelencia de tu trabajo y de tu comportamiento.

Focus on the Best and Neglect All the Rest

Rise and shine so you'll escape the misery of mediocrity

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it," observed David Starr Jordan.

RULE #4 To have the results The Top 5% of producers have, you must start doing what 95% of people are unwilling to do. As you start to live like this, the majority will call you crazy. Remember that being labeled a freak is the price of greatness.

Quería estar seguro, muy seguro, de que cada una de sus palabras era la mejor que podía ofrecer».

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Y por cierto, es mejor hundirnos en el fracaso por haber querido perseguir nuestras más altas ambiciones, que malgastar nuestras mejores horas viendo la televisión sin salir de la mediocridad.

In my businesses, I only allow in top players, because you can't have an A-level company with C-level performers.

Less is more, you know? You're attempting too much. Geniuses understand that it's smarter to create one masterwork than one thousand ordinary pieces.

Nunca ha sido tan fácil como ahora manejar el cotarro en los negocios, porque muy pocos competidores invierten los medios necesarios para dominar en su sector. La perfección es una rareza, y la gente que opera al nivel más alto es muy escasa. ¡Así que el triunfo está asegurado!

unaware teachers reinforce the idea that the heroic geniuses of the arts, sciences, sports and humanities are 'special' and that we need to accept that we are 'ordinary,' incapable of producing towering work that leaves people breathless by its excellence and generating a life that is matchless.

Una cosa importante a tener en cuenta: Hay una gran competitividad en el nivel ordinario, pero no hay casi ninguna en el nivel extraordinario. Nunca antes se ha dado una oportunidad como esta de volveros líderes inigualables, porque muy pocos trabajan por ser los mejores en este momento de tan poca concentración, de mermados valores y de una fe deteriorada en nosotros mismos, pese al poder primitivo que albergamos en nuestro interior.

Jealousy is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius

I've learned about leadership success, it's that it lies at the intersection where excellence meets honor.

Solo aquel que se consagra a una causa con toda su fuerza y su alma, puede ser un verdadero maestro. Por esta razón, la excelencia lo exige todo de una persona. ALBERT EINSTEIN

There's a ton of competition at ordinary, but there's almost none at extraordinary.

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his life and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him, he is always doing both.

Todas las mujeres y todos los hombres heroicos del mundo han sido perfeccionistas. Eran verdaderos optimizadores, enormemente obsesionados porque todo lo que hacían fuera destacable.

Be a virtuoso. A standout. An exceptionalist.

An excellent organization is really just a cluster of people showing personal excellence in all they do.

The years slip by unbelievably fast. Don't blink you'll be old. Do your juiciest goals now. Get started this very moment. Be excellent. Forget perfection. And don't wait. Please.

Exceptionalism is a journey. Virtuosity is a voyage. Rome wasn't built in a day, right?

However, the ones who do more than just exist, the ones who fan the flames of their human potential and truly savor the magical dance of life do different things than those whose lives are ordinary.