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> [If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-townsend/if-you-don-t-do-it-excellently-don-t-do-it-at-all-because-if-it-s-not-2/)

[Robert Townsend](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-townsend/)

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## More by Robert Townsend

> [True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-townsend/true-leadership-must-be-for-the-benefit-of-the-followers-not-the/)

[Robert Townsend](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-townsend/)

> [Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-townsend/is-what-i-m-doing-or-about-to-do-getting-us-closer-to-our-objective/)

[Robert Townsend](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-townsend/)

> [If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-townsend/if-you-don-t-do-it-excellently-don-t-do-it-at-all-because-if-it-s-not/)

[Robert Townsend](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-townsend/)

> [Make every decision as if you owned the company.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-townsend/make-every-decision-as-if-you-owned-the-company/)

[Robert Townsend](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-townsend/)

> [When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-townsend/when-you-get-right-down-to-it-one-of-the-most-important-tasks-of-a/)

[Robert Townsend](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-townsend/)

> [The world is divided into two classes of people: the few people who make good on their promises (even if they don't promise as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-townsend/the-world-is-divided-into-two-classes-of-people-the-few-people-who/)

[Robert Townsend](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-townsend/)

> [Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-townsend/consultants-are-people-who-borrow-your-watch-and-tell-you-what-time/)

[Robert Townsend](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-townsend/)

> [Managers must have the discipline not to keep pulling up the flowers to see if their roots are healthy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-townsend/managers-must-have-the-discipline-not-to-keep-pulling-up-the-flowers/)

[Robert Townsend](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-townsend/)

> [A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-townsend/a-good-leader-needs-to-have-a-compass-in-his-head-and-a-bar-of-steel/)

[Robert Townsend](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-townsend/)

> [If you have to have a policy manual, publish the 'Ten Commandments.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-townsend/if-you-have-to-have-a-policy-manual-publish-the-ten-commandments/)

[Robert Townsend](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-townsend/)

> [It's a poor bureaucrat who can't stall a good idea until even its sponsor is relieved to see it dead and officially buried.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-townsend/it-s-a-poor-bureaucrat-who-can-t-stall-a-good-idea-until-even-its/)

[Robert Townsend](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-townsend/)

> ["Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-townsend/top-management-is-supposed-to-be-a-tree-full-of-owls-hooting-when/)

[Robert Townsend](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-townsend/)

> [One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-townsend/one-of-the-most-important-tasks-of-a-manager-is-to-eliminate-his/)

[Robert Townsend](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-townsend/)

> [Due to budget cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-townsend/due-to-budget-cutbacks-the-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-has-been/)

[Robert Townsend](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-townsend/)

> [If people are coming to work excited. . . if they're making mistakes freely and fearlessly. . . if they're having fun. . .…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-townsend/if-people-are-coming-to-work-excited-if-they-re-making-mistakes/)

[Robert Townsend](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-townsend/)

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