Quotes About Excellence

Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in man.

The results of quality work last longer than the shock of high prices.

I am a nutritional overachiever.

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

Don't make excuses — make good!

Life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

Companies win when their managers make a clear and meaningful distinction between top- and bottom-performing businesses and people, when they cultivate the strong and cull the weak. Companies suffer when every business and person is treated equally and bets are sprinkled all around like rain on the ocean.

From my days in the Pit, I learned that the game is all about fielding the best athletes. Whoever fielded the best team there won. Reuben Gutoff reinforced that it was no different in business. Winning teams come from differentiation, rewarding the best and removing the weakest, always fighting to raise the bar. I was lucky to get out of the pile and learn this my very first year at GE—the hard way, by nearly quitting the company.

We are alike, Joscelin and I, in that what we do, we do very well.

Unless you think you can do better than Tolstoy, we don't need you.

wherever a human being goes, there is a challenge. Be the best man you can, and your gods will look with favor upon you.

It ain't bragging if you've done it. There's nothing wrong with being proud of doing something well. In fact, if you intend to do something creative for a living, it's absolutely essential. [check for wording] Proper pride says, I'm good at this. Improper pride says, I'm better than you.

It takes a diverse family of testers to raise an amazing product.

The man who sets his whole mind on the doing of each task as it is presented, who puts into it energy and intelligence, shutting all else out from his mind, and striving to do that one thing, no matter how small, completely and perfectly, detaching himself from all reward in his task - that man will every day be acquiring greater command over his mind, and will, by ever- ascending degrees, become at last a man of power - a Master.

Do not long to do great and laudable things; these will do themselves if you do your present task nobly.

Doing my best in any situation is all I can do. If I worry about it while I'm doing it, I won't do my best.

You don't have to come up with the new, new thing. Just do the old, old thing slightly better than everyone else.

Nothing comes to a sleeper but a dream. Our dad used to say that." Dreams are in the head. But action creates growth, creates skill, creates excellence.

I keep telling my kids, if they want to learn to sing, or to tap dance, or draw manga comics, or to do anything, learn everything you can about all the masters in your field over the past 100 years.

Why limit yourself to a single passion? Here's a secret: you don't have to worry about "finding" your passion. You're naturally going to get passionate about what you are good

You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason. The limits of your ambition were, thus, expected to be set forever. You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were a worthless human being. You are not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expected to make peace with mediocrity.

You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were a worthless human being. You were not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expected to make peace with mediocrity.

You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason. The limits of your ambition were, thus expected to be set forever.... You were not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expected to make peace with mediocrity.

You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason. The limits of your ambition were, thus, expected to be set forever. You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were a worthless human being. You were not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expected to make peace with mediocrity.