Quotes About Excellence

Infosys was founded and run by professionals.

As professionals, you always have to perform to the top of your ability.

When it's show time, no matter what, differences are put to the side, and we come together to put on the best show possible because we are all professionals. Our love and passion for what we do always override any issues.

It's a competitive sport, a competitive nature, we're all professionals.

There are lots of professions where your social following is key now. But chasing followers is strange to me. I'd rather focus on the work.

We need to take excellent care of our customers, and do so at a profit.

Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.

Yes, it's important to make things great, and you can certainly do this by upgrading over time, but good and profitable is better than perfect and never done.

In order to generate extraordinary profits, you must have a focus that is beyond profits. You need to focus on how you serve your clients.

I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.

I'm not going to apologize for having a great team and a great program and a bunch of committed guys, and Coach Saban is not, either.

Colleges will try to get the good students. That's the way to go. When I chaired my department of Materials Engineering at the Technion in 1990, we started a program for which we set the bar very high. It was the highest at the Technion, above electrical engineering and medicine.

Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programmes or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better.

When people have options for what they want to see, it forces the quality of programming and content to be higher.

Training programs shouldn't be designed to deliver competence; they must be dedicated to producing excellence. Serious organizations don't aspire to be comfortably above average.

The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs.

I always wanted to be Olympic champion and do clean programs.

At the commencements I attended, graduates were classified by their academic rankings. Outstanding academic performance was noted in the programs and awarded with special honors.

I'm competing against men who are doing five quads between the short program and the long program, and I'm at three between the two programs. Who would ever imagine that three wasn't enough for some people?

I believe that if creative people are open and generous enough when working with each other, a lot more can be learned and achieved by both parties. That's what it's all about, trying to produce the best work possible on any given project.

I'm not lying, every single project I've done, they've all been great.

There's competition in every field, and that's healthy. It makes you work harder and be your best. Competition, not in terms of money or number of projects, but in the quality of your work, is very healthy.

For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change.

Don't forget, I'm 39. I didn't come here just for the money to impress myself. I'm not saying I am going to be dominating. I'm not saying I'm going to be good. But I can promise you I will do all the right things to play.