Excellence
Going far beyond the call of duty, doing more than others expect . . . this is what excellence is all about. And it comes from striving, maintaining the highest standards, looking after the smallest detail, and going the extra mile. Excellence means doing your very best. In everything. In everyway.
"There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority . . ."
Orison Swett Marden
"Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement . . ."
Michael Korda​​
"If a man has done his best, what else is there?..."
​George S. Patton​
"Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have."
​Zig Ziglar
"When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has succeeded."
​Mark Douglas
"I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end."
​Abraham Lincoln
"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life."
​Robert Louis Stevenson
"All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them."
​Charles M. Schwab
"If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know."
​Thomas Wolfe
"When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success."
​Orison Swett Marden
"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their committment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor."
​Vincent T. Lombardi
"The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eagar beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do--they always reach."
​Lee Iacocca
"A race horse that can run a mile a few seconds faster is worth twice as much. That little extra proves to be the greatest value."
John D. Hess
"If there's a way to do it better . . . find it."
​Thomas A. Edison
"The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other."
​Orison Swett Marden
"He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times."
​Johnann Von Schiller
"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."
​Og Mandino