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Excellence Quotes by Tom Peters
- Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade.
- A while back, I came across a line attributed to IBM founder Thomas Watson. If you want to achieve excellence, he said, you can get…
- The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
- Do it, fix it, try it.
- Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
- Screw-ups are the mark of excellence.
- I imagine a school system that recognizes learning is natural, that a love of learning is normal, and that real learning is passionate learning. A…
- If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?
- Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
- Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
- 'In Search of Excellence' - even the title - is a reminder that business isn't dry, dreary, boring, or by the numbers. Life at work…
- Mittelstand companies are incredibly focused and almost always family-run. The young men and women go through the apprenticeship system and learn that the goal is…
More Excellence Quotes
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is… — Walter Bagehot
- No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of… — Charles Kendall Adams
- I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's okay if there are flaws here and there. — Tyra Banks
- It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become… — Joseph Addison
- We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be… — Warren G. Bennis