Excellence Quotes

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Great companies are built on great products.

We try to, when you come to Google, fulfill that need that you have as quickly as possible.

Excellence matters, and technology advances so fast that the potential for improvement is tremendous.

You need to get one thing done well, or else you don't have permission to do anything else.

One hundred years from now, I expect the Tatas to be much bigger than it is now. More importantly, I hope the Group comes to be regarded as being the best in India.. best in the manner in which we operate, best in the products we deliver, and best in our value systems and ethics. Having said that, I hope that a hundred years from now we will spread our wings far beyond India.

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

Even if you flippin' fries at McDonald's, if you are excellent, everybody wants to be in your line.

If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.

As a leader, I am tough on myself and I raise the standard for everybody; however, I am very caring because I want people to excel at what they are doing so that they can aspire to be me in the future.

We're making every day easier for busy families and we're using new ways of working to do it.

Together, we're building a new Walmart. We're going to make shopping with us faster, easier and more enjoyable. We'll do more than just save customers money and you, our associates, will make the difference.

Individual efforts can bring excellence but only collective efforts can deliver effectively.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

It is a good instinct if you don't distort it and pervert it. Don't give it up. Keep feeling the need for being important. Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon.