Quotes About Excellence

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory, ' I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

Be proud of your Latino culture and do the best work you can do, and you will always succeed.

You were born to live the best of being.

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.

Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to.

To be labelled a cheat - it's not fair. If I'm a cheat, then prove I'm a cheat or just leave me alone and let me do what I do best.

Give them quality. That's the best kind of advertising.

Everything is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.

Anyone who doesn't win their conference has no business playing in the national championship game.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

When you're out of quality, you're out of business.

There are only two ways to establish competitive advantage: do things better than others or do them differently.

Greatness is won, not awarded.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

When you compete with a person, you only have to be as good or better than the person to win. If you compete with yourself, there is no limitation to how good you can be.

If you're not trying to do something better, then you're not focused on the customer and you'll miss the possibility of making your business great.

I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years.

Baking is my business, and it will always come first.

In business or in football, it takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to produce spectacular results.

Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people

A culture of discipline is not a principle of business, it is a principle of greatness.

That good is the enemy of great is not just a business problem. It is a human problem.

And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you're consistent, you're vulnerable to attack. Yes, it's a paradox. Now deal with it!

I genuinely believe that any business can create a competitive advantage through giving outstanding customer care.