Excellence Quotes

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

"If you think a high standard can be achieved in two weeks, and it actually takes six months, you will fail."

"I am the punishment of God... If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you."

"As for my own business, even that kind of surveying which I could do with most satisfaction my employers do not want. They would prefer that I should do my work coarsely and not too well, ay, not well enough. When I observe that there are different ways of surveying, my employer commonly asks which will give him the most land, not which is most correct. p. 486"

"A winner is a dreamer who never gives up."

"I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk. They are the models of excellence the rest of the world marvels about. Join this unique team of people known as the few who do versus the many who wish — result-oriented people who produce their life exactly as they desire it. p. 413"

"Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold. Ch. 15 : The Scroll Marked VIII, p. 88."

"Good is the enemy of great. That good is the enemy of great is not just a business problem. It is a human problem As cited in: Margaret A. Byrnes, ‎Jeanne Baxter (2006), The Principal's Leadership Counts!. p. 99"

"Excellence is found in the details. If you overlook the small things, you'll never master the big things."

"To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and performance of a high order. p. 398"

"The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you’ll be."

"The first rule of entrepreneurial leverage is: if you can’t trust someone, you can’t give them any responsibility."

"Greatness is found in the struggle, not the crowning."

"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do."

"Being a lifelong learner is the only way to stay relevant."

"Cynics criticize, and winners analyze"

"Product-market fit is the only thing that matters."

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."

"To achieve high standards, you must first recognize what 'good' looks like in that specific domain."

"The merit in action lies in finishing it to the end."

"Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front."

"Real life is not a classroom; excellence requires practical tinkering."

"I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp. Ch. 15 : The Scroll Marked VIII, p. 91."

"A culture of discipline is not a principle of business, it is a principle of greatness. p. 1"

"Excellence is the byproduct of doing the things you don't want to do when you don't want to do them."

"An organization belongs on a sick list when promotion becomes more important to its people than accomplishment of their job they are in. It is sick when it is more concerned with avoiding mistakes than with taking risks, with counteracting the weaknesses of its members than with building on their strength. But it is sick also when "good human relations" become more important than performance and achievement. p. 93-94"

"Meditation has been the single most important reason for whatever success I’ve had."

"If you want to build a great company, you have to be willing to do the things that don't scale first."

"I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion."

"The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed."

"The safest way to try to get what you want is to try to deserve what you want."

"Growth is the ultimate filter for excellence in the startup world."

"True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information."