Quotes About Excellence

Not everybody is created equal, and it's important for companies to identify those high potentials and treat them differently, accelerate their development and pay them more. That process is so incredibly important to developing first-class leadership in a company.

Regardless if what you do in the world, you do it good. You do your best, and you show up on time, and you leave and you do a good job, and you treat people the way you want to be treated.

Everything about the Olympics was first class, and women were treated as athletes and equals.

Whatever job you're asked to do, whether you think it's mundane, boring, or beneath you, do the best job you can. No assignment should be treated as a task. Before you can climb the ladder, you need to build a good foundation.

I really like the way he plays, but I also really like the way he treats people, Aaron Judge. I'm a big fan.

When an actor even after ten years of experience puts in effort and treats every day of her work as the first day in her career, she becomes an asset.

How do you find a better actor than Michael McKean? How do you find someone who's just that good? They don't grow on trees. Plus, he's a pleasure to work with, pleasure to be around.

Good parts just don't fall off trees. I try to be very careful about what sort of projects I attack. There's an audience out there that expects high standards from me.

The message of 'Star Trek,' if there is one, seems to be that we should try to live up to the very best that we're capable of.

My ideal is a book that is perfect on every page, that gives you tremendous aesthetic joy on every page. I suppose I am trying to write such a book.

Everything about 'Kitten Bowl' has been so tremendous.

You know, I think that anything you do at Apple... you feel a tremendous onus. You want to carry on the legacy of what it meant.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn't allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

There is nothing that will be bigger than a Michael Jordan tribute.

I'm especially honored that The Black Gents will debut Off-Broadway and pay tribute to The Tuskegee Airmen and other ancestors of that time who have embodied excellence, self-determination, and self-discipline.

Do one thing but do it well

The world will never know you because you have not become a slave of your gift

Be at your best and be patient.

Excellence is not a history, but a habit.

Be simple but think great to be great.

Be so bright that no one can hide the greatness of your light.

Try to be the best even if you can't be the best, you will be among the betters.

If your vision is great, you become great.