Quotes About Excellence

You just can't bring your A game to every situation. Knowing when to embrace Good Enough is what gives you the opportunity to be truly excellent when you need to be.

Knowing when to embrace Good Enough is what gives you the opportunity to be truly excellent when you need to be.

Pour yourself into your product and everything around your product too: how you sell it, how you support it, how you explain it, and how you deliver it. Competitors can never copy the you in your product.

Do we look at Harvard or Oxford and say, "If they'd only expand and branch out and hire thousands more professors and go global and open other campuses all over the world … then they'd be great schools." Of course not. That's not how we measure the value of these institutions. So why is it the way we measure businesses?

You just can't bring your A game to every situation. Knowing when to embrace Good Enough is what gives you the opportunity to be truly excellent when you need to be. We're not suggesting you put shit work out there. You need to be able to be proud of it, even if it's only "okay." But attempting to be indiscriminately great at everything is a foolish waste of energy.

The best are everywhere

You're better off with a kick-ass half than a half-assed whole.

Don't mistake this approach for skimping on quality, either. You still want to make something great. This approach just recognizes that the best way to get there is through iterations. Stop imagining what's going to work. Find out for real.

So start chopping. Getting to great starts by cutting out stuff that's merely good.

You want to do your job well so that people in the future say, 'OK, he's not bad, let's hire him.'

Go the extra mile, it's rarely crowded.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best

nothing is too good for the object of their adoration as long as he maintains his position by repeated examples of his skill, strength, and courage.

Not his match! And have you not the heart in you to be anything but best? How many are his match? How many in this world do you think stand in the front rank? Are all the rest of us to give up and sit on our hands rather than serve humbly where we deserve?

She's a monstrously perfect result of the system: the completest proof of its triumph

For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever

Good cops make their bosses look good, and Hector was a one-man beauty school.

No amount of excellence on the part of a computer can lead to the solution of a problem if the problem has been incorrectly defined by the programmer. In

Unsere Einschätzung des persönlichen Verdienstes richtet sich nach dem Durchschnittsmenschen. Die überragenden Leistungen eines Genies oder einer Tugend, sei es im tätigen oder im kontemplativen Leben, werden nicht nach ihrem absoluten Kulminationspunkt bemessen, sondern nach der Höhe, die sie über dem Durchschnitt ihres Jahrhunderts oder ihres Landes erreichen.

New York was always materialist. But it was also the city of excellence, of art, music, of endless possibilities.

Personally I think that competition should be encouraged in war and sport and business, but that it makes no sense in the arts. If an artist is good, nobody else can do what he or she does and therefore all comparisons are incoherent.

If an artist is good, nobody else can do what he or she does and therefore all comparisons are incoherent. Only the mediocre, pushing forward a commonplace view of life in a commonplace language, can really be compared, but my wife thinks that least mediocre of the mediocre is a discouraging title for a prize[.]

He was perfect in his way,' said Patrick.

Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.