Quotes About Excellence

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A friend who loves Paris once told me, 'There aren't many things we humans need to do. We need to eat, we need to drink, we need to make love. And the French attitude is, okay, we should do those things very well.

There aren't many things we humans need to do. We need to eat, we need to drink, we need to make love. And the French attitude is, okay, we should do those things very well.

you seek and accept only the best, you are a maximizer.

work of supererogation

There's neither need nor justification to wallow in the trough of mediocrity.

The master competes with no one so, no one can compete with her.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ARISTOTLE Our character, basically, is a composite of our habits. "Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny," the maxim goes.

True discipline means channeling our best hours into first-order objectives, and that means being a nonconformist in the best sense.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ARISTOTLE

the dignity of the individual, excellence, and service. These things represent the belief system of IBM. Everything else will change, but these three things will not change. Almost like osmosis, this belief system has spread throughout the entire organization, providing a tremendous base of shared values and personal security for everyone who works there.

A menudo «lo bueno» es enemigo de «lo mejor».

There might be exceptions—and if so, you might rethink their employment—but few people really want to be mediocre. Most of your team members want to make a valued contribution—to find purpose in their work.

There is no real excellence

Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.

Be true to yourself. Make each day your masterpiece! Help others. Drink deeply from good books, especially the Bible. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day. Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings every day.

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living." DAVID STARR JORDAN

Somos lo que hacemos día a día. De modo que la excelencia no es un acto, sino un hábito.

What is the one activity that you know if you did superbly well and consistently would have significant positive results in your personal life? What is the one activity that you know if you did superbly well and consistently would have significant positive results in your professional or work life?

IBM stands for three things: the dignity of the individual, excellence, and service.

whether you are a mailman, a hairdresser, an insurance salesman, a housewife—whatever. As long as you feel you are serving others, you do the job well. When you are concerned only with helping yourself, you do it less well—a law as inexorable as gravity.

You have to learn the rules of the game, then you have to play better than everyone else.

My favorite American philosopher is Ralph Waldo Emerson, who once observed, "If you write a better book, or preach a better sermon, or build a better mousetrap than your neighbor, the world will make a beaten path to your door.