Quotes About Excellence

To do well at a few things, give up many things.

You lose the respect of the best when you don't deal properly with the worst.

Average" is the top of the bottom, the best of the worst, the bottom of the top, the worst of the best. Which of these are you?

Don't settle for poor performers. Keep in mind that one great person will always out-produce and out-perform two mediocre people.

All true leaders have learned to say no to the good in order to say yes to the best.

Inspirar a otros para hacer un mejor trabajo es el logro de un líder.

Cutting corners is a sign of impatience and poor self-discipline. But if you are willing to follow through, you can achieve a breakthrough. That's why Albert Gray says, "The common denominator of success lies in forming the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do.

Todos tenemos el potencial de vivir más allá de lo mediocre.

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No one achieves greatness by becoming a generalist. You don't hone a skill by diluting your attention to its development.

Leaders who have reached the top of their profession or the top of their organization cannot take anything for granted. No matter how good they've been in the past, they still need to strategize, weigh decisions, plan, and execute at a high level.

Leadership expert Peter Drucker says, "The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes . . . otherwise he is sure to be mediocre." Mistakes really do pave the road to achievement.

Being willing to give up some of the things you love in order to focus on what has the greatest impact isn't an easy lesson to learn. But the earlier you embrace it, the sooner you can dedicate yourself to excellence in what matters most.

You are nothing unless it comes from your heart. Passion, caring, really looking to create excellence. If you perform functions only and go to work only to do processes, then you are effectively retired. And it scares me—most people I see, by age twenty-eight are retired.

La mayor parte de las personas buscan la excepción en vez de ser excepcionales.

Las preguntas que debe hacerse son: ¿Qué puedo cambiar? ¿Qué puedo hacer extraordinariamente bien? ¿En qué logro el nivel más alto de desempeño? ¿Con qué acciones siempre logro un impacto positivo? En eso es en lo que debe centrarse.

Willa A. Foster commented, "Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.

Trabajar duro no es suficiente, tampoco lo es ser excelentes en lo que hacemos. Para ser exitoso, debes aprender a establecer una verdadera comunicación con los demás.

Just remember that if you're not working at your game to the utmost of your ability, there will be someone out there somewhere with equal ability. And one day you'll play each other, and he'll have the advantage.

A leader with great passion and few skills always outperforms a leader with great skills and no passion.

to put it as philosopher-poet Ralph Waldo Emerson did, "To be simple is to be great.

Siempre ganamos cuando nos esforzamos al máximo en hacer lo mejor que podemos". —John Wooden

George Halas said, "Nobody who ever gave their best ever regretted it." 3.

El deseo de innovar, mejorar, crear, y buscar la mejor manera es una característica de liderazgo.