Exzellenz / Excellence Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Exzellenz / Excellence:

The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul. Charles Handy

A lot of companies have nice-sounding cultural values like integrity, respect, and excellence, but if those values don't map to specific behaviors, then they quickly get lost. Instead, we see what's called a 'halo effect' where leaders tend to overvalue certain attributes and undervalue others.

Peggy Johnson

What is excellence? It is about going a little beyond what we expect from ourselves. Part of the need for excellence is imposed on us externally by our customers. Our competition keeps us on our toes, especially when it is global in nature.

Azim Premji

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.

Paul Tsongas

We like being private because when there is a downturn, as in 2001 and 2008, we do not reduce people. Also, we have flat decision-making. It's quick. We don't have to meet quarterly numbers, and it's all about excellence of work for the client.

Richard Edelman

You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out.

James Daly

Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

John W. Gardner

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Thomas J. Watson

What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts.

Jane Alexander

But, I don't want to assume that our tradition of excellence is a guarantee of future excellence.

Dave Heineman

If the Olympic Games ever served a true altruistic purpose, they have long since outlived it. Yeah, the pursuit of athletic excellence, sportsmanship and international goodwill is plenty noble. But the modern Olympics are at best a vehicle for agitprop; at worst, a scandal magnet.

John Ridley

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

Vince Lombardi

When I brought home a 98 percent on a test, my father would say, 'Ah, ah, where are the other two points? Go and get them, then bring them back.' My father and Nigerian culture has always stood for excellence.

Jidenna

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

For a start-up company, it is all about the religion of the product's excellence - the success of the product - while for a large corporation, it is the brand. We chose to maintain our start-up image.

Noam Bardin

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

John W. Gardner

'In Search of Excellence' was an afterthought, the runt of the McKinsey consulting litter, a hip-pocket project that was never supposed to amount to much.

Tom Peters

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Steve Jobs

You need a commitment which is long term and a commitment to leadership, because that's the only way you build excellence.

Azim Premji

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is my sincere hope that hospitals across Indiana, and America, continue to strive for excellence when it comes to providing medical care. This proposed rule will be harmful to communities who wish to upgrade their medical facilities.

Steve Buyer

The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.

Dawn Fraser

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

J. G. Stedman

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

John W. Gardner

Size is the enemy of excellence in investment banking, particularly when you are trying to put together two different cultures.

Henry Paulson

The adoration of human nature by the Greeks appeared in Greek plastic art and was the cause of its excellence.

Elie Metchnikoff

If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.

Octavio Paz

But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.

Andy Hertzfeld

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

Philip James Bailey

I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.

Claire Bloom

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 excellence.

Tom Peters

Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

Hesiod

I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge.

Rita Coolidge

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Aristotle

Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.

Chris Evert

I work hard and I have a standard of excellence - and I expect everyone at the Interior Department to meet that same standard. I delegate a lot. I might appear to be doing a lot of different things, but there's a strong team helping me. I believe we're going to have the strongest team of any agency in the Obama administration.

Ken Salazar