Excellence Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

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.

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.

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.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.

I don't work at being ordinary.

Intensity is the price of excellence.

If You're going to sweep the floor, sweep it better than anybody in town. And if You're going to play the guitar, really, really, really get in it, and don't be jivin'.

Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.

Better to do a little well, then a great deal badly.

I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is a habit.