Quotes About Excellence

if you find talented people and equip them with the right skills for the challenge at hand, they will perform at their best. In our experience that often isn't so. Energy is the X factor that makes it possible to fully ignite

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Being the B.E.S.T.

Anytime we fail to bring our best efforts to our job, we diminish our employer, our colleagues, and most significantly, ourselves.

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

There are no right and wrong ways to work in this business, but there are some basic common-sense practices. Work very, very hard and always be prepared never give up and once you get the job, give them more than they ever expected: - Shine!

Oh, it's so good

Let's pursue excellence together. Let's make art. Let's build the future. Let's be our best selves.

There will always be some who see excellence and envy it instead of striving to emulate it.

There isn't an end point to excellence where you have it and you can stop. Being your best self means keeping on trying.

We, and Plato, meant nothing but the best for them! And when I say the best I mean it literally; what we wanted for them was nothing but excellence, virtue, arete. They say you can't want that for somebody else, they have to want it for themselves. Well, perhaps they have a point. But Plato wrote that seeking to increase someone else's excellence is the best form of love.

I also pursue excellence, and Father told me that it can only ever be pursued, never caught—though

There isn't an end point to excellence where you have it and you can stop. Being your best self means keeping on trying." She

I swear by Zeus and Hera and Demeter and Apollo and Athene, by the figs and olives and barley and grapes, by the sea and the sky and the earth beneath my feet, that I will protect and defend the excellence of the Just City from all enemies, internal and external. I will fight bravely, judge fairly, and contribute to the best of my abilities. I will defend her laws and institutions, resist tyranny and foolishness, and the lures of wealth and honor, and strive ever to increase her excellence.

Only by competing to be unique can an organization achieve sustained, superior performance.

a good competitive strategy that will result in sustainably superior performance.

For Porter, strategic competition means choosing a path different from that of others. Instead of competing to be the best, companies can—and should—compete to be unique.

Competing to be unique is unlike warfare in that one company's success does not require its rivals to fail. It is unlike competition in sports because every company can chose to invent its own game. A better analogy than war or sports might be the performing arts.

What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.

deserves your best every day of your life.

Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.

I always have the fear that, if I don't commit 100 percent to my work, then it's gonna suffer.

The best steel doesn't always shine the brightest.