The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
Excellence is about fighting and pursuing something diligently, with a strict and determined approach to doing it right. It's okay if there are flaws in the process - it makes it more interesting.
Excellence endures and sustains. It goes beyond motivation into the realms of inspiration.
Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.
It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.
There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
'In Search of Excellence' - even the title - is a reminder that business isn't dry, dreary, boring, or by the numbers. Life at work can be cool - and work that's cool isn't confined to Tiger Woods, Yo-Yo Ma, or Tom Hanks. It's available to all of us and any of us.
So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.
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