Excellence Quotes

"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort."

"Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world."

"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."

"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."

"Acknowledging what you don't know is the dawning of wisdom."

"Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service."

"If you skillfully follow the multidisciplinary path, you will never wish to come back."

"Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black."

"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking."

"Invert, always invert: Turn a situation or problem upside down. Look at it backward."

"The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."

"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right."

"In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time—none, zero."

"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."

"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business."

"We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time."

"Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice."

"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this."

"Wisdom acquisition is a moral duty. It's not something you do just to advance in life."

"We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth."

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."

"Take a simple idea and take it seriously."

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it."

"Money is like an arm or a leg - use it or lose it."

"The big money is not in the buying and the selling, but in the waiting."

"The best way to produce a good product is to make the work simple."

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

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

"There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible."

"Everything is possible. ‘Faith’ is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."

"If you want to get smart, the question you have to keep asking is 'why, why, why?'"

"The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time."

"There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do."