Quotes About Excellence

One of our first customers asked me how big we want to be. I said I want to be really big. Later, it bothered me that I answered that way. Now I say I just want to be a great company.

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.

Cause there's only one reason for doing anything that you set out to do. If you don't want to be the best, then there's no reason going out and trying to accomplish anything.

Give me 100 percent. You can't make up for a poor effort today by giving 110 percent tomorrow. You don't have 110 percent. You only have 100 percent, and that's what I want from you right now.

I train for two reasons. Number one, I love working out, and number two, I want to win. You can't win if you don't train to the best of your ability.

I don't care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I'd want to do my job better than the fellow next to me. I'd want to be the best at whatever I do.

I'm obsessed with perfection. I want to work. I don't want to stop. I want to take advantage and make myself the best possible me that I can be.

I am overcome by my own amazing sloth...Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that I don't do it at all?

I'm just competitive. It doesn't matter what it is. I want to win.

I'm always hungry. I want to be the best.

Focus on being the best you can at what you want to do.

The biggest problem I see among people who want to excel in chess – and in business and in life in general – is not trusting their instincts enough.

People suddenly expected less of me and I didn't want that. Not only could I keep up with sighted kids, I could excel. I have an intense competiveness that was always in me.

Father made the most popular cars in the world; I want to make the best.

I've been taught from a young age to want to be the best driver... It was about being the best driver and not the best girl.

When God gave Christ to this world, He gave the best He had, and He wants us to do the same.

If they don't have a winning attitude, I don't want them.

Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great.

If you ask me how I want to be remembered, it is as a winner.

It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out?

When I'm going against guys like Kevin Durant - one of the best leading scorers in the league - it pushes you to want to get better, seeing how hard he works.

We really care about our brand. We really want it to stand for high quality. We want people to be excited about it, for it to be fun.

We at the Big Ten don't want to be like the SEC ... in any way, shape or form.

You've got to look for tough competition. You've got to want to beat the best.