#excellence

To have a man whose name is on the label showing such interest, commitment, and determination for the best is a wonderful thing. This is someone who will throw money at quality, who believes in being the best. Never knock it. Would you prefer to have a bean counter in corporate headquarters, someone who never comes near the brewery, making decisions solely on the basis of the bottom line and profit margins? ↗

— Charles W. Bamforth

#commitment #corporate-ethics #excellence #quality #quality-assurance

If you’re any good at all, you know you can be better. ↗

— Lindsay Buckingham

#excellence #improvement #maturity #practice #maturity

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#bad one #dullness #excellence #good #good sign

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. ↗

— Charles Kendall Adams

#amount #attains #determines #distinction #doing

Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days. ↗

— Ted W. Engstrom

#excellence #occupy #our #process #should

There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living. ↗

— David Starr Jordan

#living #real #right #separated #which

My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence. ↗

— John Kluge

#excellence #life #my life #philosophy #pursuit

Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#excellence #inspirational #life #philosophy #truth

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

— Philip James Bailey

#cold #excellence #highest #intellectual #mark

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

— Claire Bloom

#anyhow #artist #excellence #i #i always