Quotes About Excellence

Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die

There is no way of making a business successful that can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service.

Regardless of how well a studio is run, it's only as good as the product it produces.

If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.

When I do something, I do it all the way. I've been in show business so many years. I've achieved a lot of things.

In business, what distinguishes leaders from laggards and greatness from mediocrity is the ability to uniquely imagine what could be.

Focus on building the best possible business. If you are great, people will notice and opportunities will appear.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.

I think about what's the best way to serve people. In business, if you do more for others than anybody else does, you dominate. That's the bottom line.

Have a vision. Be demanding.

If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue?

I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.

My motto has always been: Only first class business and that in a first class way

Become the very best in your business!

If you want to sustain excellence over a long time, you'd better come up with a system that works well. Anyone can sprint for a little while, but you can't sprint for forty years.

We must strive to make ourselves really worthy of some employment. We need pay no attention to anything else; the rest is the business of others.

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

I have this saying. Quality is the best business plan. I believe so strongly in that.

As I was coming up in business, screwing up was not an option in any form.

If you think in terms of topping, you're in the wrong business. You can't think that way.

Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable.

Cream always rises to the top...so do good leaders".

Entrepreneur, if your going to start up, make sure you start up with excellence in mind.