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"Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence."
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"Those who believe in quality produce quality goods."

"Comfort is a stance of avoidance rather than the pursuit of excellence."

"There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority."

"Become so good they can't ingore you, and you are on the path to success. Become so good they can't stand you, and you are on the path to greatness."

"He loved the sea for deep-seated reasons: the hardworking artist's need for repose, the desire to take shelter from the demanding diversity of phenomena in the bosom of boundless simplicity, a propensity-proscribed and diametrically opposed to his mission in life and for that very reason seductive-a propensity for the unarticulated, the immoderate, the eternal, for nothingness. To repose in perfection is the desire of all those who strive for excellence, and is not nothingness a form of perfection?"

"Negotiation is permissible for mediocrity not for excellence."

"I live my life progressing for nothing else but the best."

"Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on us from behind, and snatches us away while we shit."

"Excellence is not an event but a habit."

"What does easy or hard have to do with anything? Excellence is your standard."
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"I try to treat people the way I would like to be treated, but I can't worry about what everyone's going to think."


"It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive."


"When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women."


"No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with."


"Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good."


"As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer."


"I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this."
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