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The kind of
people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager
beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do
more than they're expected to do -- they always reach.
-- Lee Iacocca
1924-, American Businessman,
Former CEO of Chrysler
The noblest
search is the search for excellence.
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
1908-1973, Thirty-sixth
President of the USA
We do not do
well except when we know where the best is and when we are
assured that we have touched it and hold its power within
us.
-- Joseph Joubert
1754-1824, French Moralist
The excellency
of every art is its intensity, capable of making all
disagreeable evaporate.
-- John Keats
1795-1821, British Poet
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If a man is
called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even
as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or
Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well
that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black
Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964
Being forced
to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will,
cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the
idle will never know.
-- Charles Kingsley
1819-1875, British Author,
Clergyman
Anybody who
accepts mediocrity -- in school, on the job, in life -- is a
person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the
whole organization compromises.
-- Charles Knight
I never had a
policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every
day.
-- Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth
President of the USA
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