Quotes About Success

Ive zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence... Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of themselves, and art has made me pull the best out of myself.

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.

If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us.

I have a 41-year track record of investing excellence… what do you have?

There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.

The thing I have learned at IBM is that culture is everything.

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

Lasting achievement, whatever the endeavor, comes from a commitment to excellence every step of the way.

Tall peaks are not always better than long plateaus as true greatness must include protracted excellence.

Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish.

Excellence without effort is as futile as progress without preparation.

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

I was looking for excellence in any color or gender it comes in. Some of my top people are African American but not all of them.

Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.

Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.

Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?

Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common.

Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.

Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.

If a team cannot perform with excellence at a moment's notice, they probably will fail in the long run.