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Excellence

The road to excellence is always under construction

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Best Quotes about Excellence

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Washington, Booker T.

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the best in your chosen field, whatever it is.

Mitchell, Don G.

Excellence is best described as doing the right things right -- selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority...

Marden, Orison Swett

There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.

Heifetz, Jascha

I use nothing but the best ingredients. My cookies are always baked fresh. I price cookies so that you cannot make them at home for any less. And I still give cookies away.

Fields, Debbie

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

Don't waste your time striving for perfection, instead, strive for excellence -- doing your best.

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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It isn't what you do, but how you do it.

Wooden, John

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If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.

Ogilvy, David

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The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas.

Powers, Melvin

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It isn't by size that you win or fail -- be the best of whatever you are.

Malloch, Douglas

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark...

Marden, Orison Swett

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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Pearl Buck

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People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it.

Newton, Howard W.

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One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.

Hazlitt, William

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You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

Hurt, William

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It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Hill, Napoleon

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If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator rather than catering to it.

Fischer, Edward

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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Superiority -- doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Riley, Pat

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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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To do the right thing, at the right time, in the right way; to do some things better than they were ever done before; to eliminate errors; to know both sides of the question; to be courteous; to be an example; to work for the love of work; to anticipate requirements; to develop resources; to recognize no impediments; to master circumstances; to act from reason rather than rule; to be satisfied with nothing short of perfection.

Marshall Field & Company

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Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -- only in constant improvement and constant change.

Peters, Thomas J.

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I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Mandino, Og

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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.

Meyer, Paul J.

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Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

Getty, J. Paul

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Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.

Robinson, James H.

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There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

Mill, John Stuart

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You're probably not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spectacular, don't show up in the morning paper.

Goodsell, Jane

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To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.

Mcdonald, John

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art -- an individual masterpiece.

Waitley, Denis

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Today, and every day, deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive. You deserve them!

Mandino, Og

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

Hill, Napoleon