If you deliver excellence right now, that gives you the best shot at the best future you've got coming.

The emphasis on innovation and technology in our companies has resulted in a few of them establishing global benchmarks in product design and development, manufacturing practices and human resource capabilities. However, there is no room for complacency.

We need quantitative assessments of the success of education. We need certification and qualifications both for teachers and for pupils. It is not a choice between quantity and quality, between access and excellence. Both of these will happen together if people really do believe in the importance of education to change lives.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

The most important ingredient for the success of any company is the quality of its people, starting with its leadership team.

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Integrity reveals beauty.

The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.

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.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine - 'Beauty is the splendor of Truth.'

It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

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.

British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.

Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

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.

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

Exceptional firms have always been good at aligning their mission or purpose with their execution and, as a result, have enjoyed category leadership in sales and profits.

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.

Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships. The quality of your business is no different.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

High expectations are the key to everything.

Quality is everyone's responsibility.

Infosys demonstrated to the world that an Indian company could implement standards of quality, operations, finance that compare with the best. That is a legacy I am happy with.

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.