Quotes About Excellence

DEFINITE CHIEF AIM; HABIT OF SAVING; SELF CONFIDENCE; IMAGINATION; INITIATIVE; LEADERSHIP; ENTHUSIASM; SELF CONTROL; DOING MORE THAN PAID FOR; PLEASING PERSONALITY; ACCURATE THOUGHT; CONCENTRATION; COOPERATION; FAILURE; TOLERANCE; GOLDEN RULE; THE MASTER MIND.

No profession, trade, or calling, is overcrowded in the upper story. Wherever you find the most honest and intelligent merchant or banker, or the best lawyer, the best doctor, the best clergyman, the best shoemaker, carpenter, or anything else, that man is most sought for, and has always enough to do.

In Search of Excellence, escolhido

There is a satisfaction and a feeling of latent Strength in the breast of a man who Starts a thing — and Finishes it. You will find this true if you do it. The most important task is always the task at hand. Complete it. Make it stand square and clean when you leave it. Look it over. Be sure no Ragged Edges remain.

Make it your business to render more service and better service than that for which you are paid, and lo! before you realize what has happened, you will find that the world is willingly paying you for MORE THAN YOU DO!

set a high standard for yourself.

Hay dos tipos de hombres que nunca llegan a nada», decía Andrew Carnegie. «Uno es el que no hace lo que se le dice que haga. El otro es el que nunca hace más de lo que se le dice que haga y —añade— aquel que sale adelante hace lo que debe hacer sin que nadie le diga que lo haga, pero no se detiene ahí. Va más allá haciendo bastante más de lo que se espera de él.»

20. Lack of concentration of effort. The "jack-of-all-trades" seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.

Truly, there is something to the idea that hero-worship is helpful, provided one worships a WINNER.

Form the habit of going the extra mile, giving service that is not expected, for this attracts friends, clients, and supporters in many ways

If you can't yet do great things, do small things in a great way.

When you approach every job enthusiastically in a spirit of friendly cooperation, you distinguish yourself from the vast majority of people.

the first step in achieving success is to firmly believe that you are an excellent person who deserves success.

Do every detail of your day's work as though it was to be viewed by a Master eye. Make every job a great job. Put Dignity and Joy and Enthusiasm into everything attempted, forgetting not for the shortest minute that — Success Power is in the Reserve.

The world was never so resplendent with opportunity as it is today. On every hand there is an ever-increasing demand for the services of the man or the woman who makes a better mouse-trap or performs better stenographic service or preaches a better sermon or digs a better ditch or runs a more accommodating bank.

The habit of rendering more service than is expected

In return for this money I will give the most efficient service of which I am capable, rendering the fullest possible quantity, and the best possible quality of service in the capacity of salesman of ……………. (describe the service or merchandise you intend to sell).

DOING A THING WELL NEVER IS TROUBLE!

Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators

Undercompensation from the absence of a stressor, inverse hormesis, absence of challenge, degrades the best of the best.

Those who go the extra mile are rewarded.

I cannot organize my behaviour optimally if my goal is merely to do my best. The assignment is too vague.

Look, the thing that's going to make Disneyland unique and different,' he insisted, 'is the detail. If we loose the detail, we loose it all.

Part of Walt's secret was that in insisting on quality from individuals of whom it had never been required, he inspired commitment.