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"Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary."
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"When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank."

"But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation."

"We hire people who want to make the best things in the world."

"Great work is not created for everyone. If it were, it would be average work."

"Those who believe in quality produce quality goods."

"If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed."

"Perfection is pure action that comes with zeal to excel."

"Let your first enemy be mediocrity; it has no role to play, no word to say and no action to display in your life. Never love to swim in shallow waters; they breed nothing than fearful reptiles of failure!"

"Excellence is not an event but a habit."
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"The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment."


"You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future."


"There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish."


"Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult."


"People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out."


"The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born."
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