Excellence
Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
'In Search of Excellence' — even the title — is a reminder that business isn't dry, dreary, boring, or by the numbers. Life at work can be cool — and work that's cool isn't confined to Tiger Woods, Yo-Yo Ma, or Tom Hanks. It's available to all of us and any of us.
Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential. These are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
The noblest search is the search for excellence.
There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.
Excellent firms don't believe in excellence — only in constant improvement and constant change.