Quotes About Excellence

Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance.

Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.

Upgrading your skills is one of the most important personal productivity principles of all. Learn what you need to learn so that you can do your work in an excellent fashion. The better you become at eating a particular type of frog, the more likely you are to just plunge in and get it done. A major

There are certain things that you can do, or learn to do, that can make you extraordinarily valuable to yourself and to others. Your job is to identify your special areas of uniqueness and then to commit yourself to becoming very, very good in those areas. Increase

Una de las maneras más rápidas y mejores de dejar de postergar y conseguir hacer más cosas velozmente es ser absoluta- mente excelente en las áreas clave de resultados. Esto puede ser tan importante como cualquier otra cosa que haga en su vida o su carrera.

Decision. You must make a decision this very day, this very moment, that you are going to do whatever it takes and overcome any obstacle to become excellent.

11. Upgrade your key skills: The more knowledgeable and skilled you become at your key tasks, the faster you start them and the sooner you get them done. Determine exactly what it is that you are very good at doing, or could be very good at, and throw your whole heart into doing those specific things very, very well.

Las personas de éxito conocen la importancia de los detalles. No han dejado nada al azar. No asumen que todo se hará de forma correcta o que a cualquier otra persona le importa su viaje tanto como a ellos.

Dicho con sencillez, a algunas personas las cosas les van mejor porque hacen las cosas de un modo diferente y hacen correctamente las cosas adecuadas. Sobre todo, utilizan su tiempo mucho mejor que la persona promedio.

What I learned was that in order to achive great success in life, you must become a special kind of person. To rise above the majority, you must develop qualities and disciplines that the average person lacks.

Just find out what other successful people do and do the same things until you get the same results. Simply put, some people are doing better than others because they do things differently and they do the right things right.

DO WHAT THE TOP PEOPLE DO

One of your great responsibilities in life is for you to decide for yourself what it is that you really love to do and then to throw your whole heart into doing that special thing very, very well.

There is an important distinction between standards of "ordinary" and "excellent" performance. A standard of ordinary performance is the bare minimum that employees must attain so as not to run the risk of being demoted or losing their job. Standards of excellent performance are what people must attain to ensure job security and to put themselves into a position where they are paid more and promoted faster.

Leadership is the ability to elicit extraordinary performance from ordinary people.

That the most excellent method he had found of going to GOD, was that of doing our common business without any view of pleasing men, [Gal. i. 10; Eph. vi. 5, 6.] and (as far as we are capable) purely for the love of GOD.

When you bring your best to the table, no matter where you are or what you are doing, you bring out the best in others. And soon, you start to realize, that, in turn, helps them bring out the best in you. That's the upward spiral. You find each other and form an elite group of go-to people in an otherwise ordinary context. I see that happen everywhere I go: circles or networks of go-to people who help each other and go out of their way to be mutually reliable.

Each country excels in some things, and in the rest is just the same as other countries: mediocre.

When one studies something characteristic of a people it is wise to look at its best side, at least if one wants to learn anything. Ugly things are ugly in much the same way the world over. Only the best can teach us, and the best of anything is individual. Each country excels in some things, and in the rest is just the same as other countries: mediocre.

You couldn't lose, you was playing Mozart

I heard Coach Downs never started freshman, he told us. Well that's not how it is with me. I play the best players, period. If you're a junior with three letters on your jacket, and you shave twice a day, and some smooth-faced freshman whips your ass in practice, then your collecting splinters while he's playing. Understood? Coach Carlson

For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.

The price for being the best is always... having to be the best.

Doing your best is the surest way to remind those around you to do their best.