"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."

Excellence, Focus, News, Rumors

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"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."

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"When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"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."

Tom Robbins, American Author

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"I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection."

Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch Scientist

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

Steve Jobs, American Businessman

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

Seth Godin, American Writer

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"Those who believe in quality produce quality goods."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying."

David Ogilvy, English Businessman

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"Be excellent in your own terms."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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

Vikrmn, Indian Author

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