Operational Excellence Quotes

Yet few leaders exploit the power of this rapid wake-up call. Rather, they do the opposite. They try to garner support based on a numbers case that lacks urgency and emotional impetus. Or they try to put forth the most exemplary case of their operational excellence to garner support. Although these alternatives may work, neither leads to tipping superiors' cognitive hurdle as fast and stunningly as showing the worst. When ~ W.Chan Kim

Dreaming of being on Moon cannot get you there. It requires a focused & intelligent effort to achieve what you Dream. ~ Neelesh V. Sakhardande

To achieve Operational Excellence, management has to coach, guide, teach, and instill the concept of getting rid of the use of management in supporting the flow of product to the customer ~ Kevin J. Duggan

There's no grand excellence to it. In my experience it was just almost the gulaggy boringness of it that'll kill you. You're just in this murk. And you're with other humans, but you lose all your human skills and it's just like you're in this plastic bag and you can't quite connect with people. You lose your ability to transmit electricity or something, and to receive it. ~ Neko Case

If politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if you are, which is another matter altogether. ~ Neil Postman

Excellence isn't a one-week or one-year ideal. It's a constant. ~ Michael Jordan

First, you can develop resilience. Anyone can do it. No one can do it for you. You and you alone have to do the work. Second, you can develop resilience. It's possible to build virtues. It's possible to change your character. It's possible, therefore, to change the direction of your life. Third, you can develop resilience. Resilience cannot be purchased or given to you; you have to do the hard work of building excellence in your life. ~ Eric Greitens

Excellence is renewed through deliberate practice, day in and day out. ~ Eric Greitens

Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense. ~ Goldwin Smith

Personal excellence can be achieved by a visionary goal, through planning, dedicated execution, and total follow-through. ~ Gerald R. Ford

I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others. ~ Socrates

Meditation was invented as a way for the soul to venture inward, there ultimately to find supreme identity with Godhead. Whatever else it does, and it does many beneficial things, meditation is first and foremost a search for the God within. ~ Ken Wilber

Your age reflects or measures the rate at which you have been spending life. Every one born into this world is given life and that life is measured in units of time. Spending time means spending life, wasting time means wasting life. Getting value out of time means, getting value out of life. Time does not stop moving because we stopped working with purpose, meaning life does not stop or take a break even when you plan to go on vacation. You never stop spending time, even when you don't have a penny in your pocket. ~ Archibald Marwizi

And is not life to be reckoned among the ends of the soul?
Assuredly, he said.
And has not the soul an excellence also?
Yes.
And can she or can she not fulfil her own ends when deprived of that excellen-
ce?
She cannot.
Then an evil soul must necessarily be an evil ruler and superintendent, and the
good soul a good ruler?
Yes, necessarily.
And we have admitted that justice is the excellence of the soul, and injustice the
defect of the soul?
That has been admitted.
Then the just soul and the just man will live well, and the unjust man will live
ill?
That is what your argument proves.
And he who lives well is blessed and happy, and he who lives ill the reverse of
happy?
Certainly.
Then the just is happy, and the unjust miserable?
So be it.
But happiness and not misery is profitable.
Of course.
Then, my blessed Thrasymachus, injustice can never be more profitable than
justice. ~ Plato

Form, which should be the clean-cut expression of mechanical excellence, has become sensuous and organic. ~ Raymond Loewy

We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men of the greatest genius are not always the most prodigal of their encomiums. But then it is when their range of power is confined, and they have in fact little perception, except of their own particular kind of excellence. ~ William Hazlitt

Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. They know our infantine dispositions, ...; and they can judge of our actions with more certain conclusions as to the integrity of our motives. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

You are always self-employed. You are always the president of your own personal services corporation, no matter where you might be working at the moment. When you see yourself as self-employed, you develop the entrepreneur mentality. The mentality of the highly independent, self-responsible, self-starting individual. Instead of waiting for things to happen, you make things happen. You see yourself as the boss of your own life. You see yourself as completely in charge of your physical health, your financial well-being, your career, your relationships, your home, your car, and every element of your existence. This is the mindset of the truly excellent person. ~ Brian Tracy

I feel to invite women everywhere to rise to the great potential within you. I do not ask that you reach beyond your capacity. I hope you will not nag yourselves with thoughts of failure. I hope you will not try to set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know. If you do so, you will witness miracles come to pass. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley

Making a decision to live a life of excellence, and living a life of excellence are two difference things. ~ Bohdi Sanders

Whether this has ever happened I know not, nor whether it ever can happen. For we see, as I have said a little way back, that a city which owing to its pervading corruption has once begun to decline, if it is to recover at all, must be saved not by the excellence of the people collectively, but of some one man then living among them, on whose death it at once relapses into its former plight; as happened with Thebes, in which the virtue of Epaminondas made it possible while he lived to preserve the form of a free Government, but which fell again on his death into its old disorders; the reason being that hardly any ruler lives so long as to have time to accustom to right methods a city which has long been accustomed to wrong. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli

If a few nations step forward and begin changing the narrative of 'us and them' to 'everyone,' we will see a new dawn. If a few nations begin actually making operational a verification system we can all depend upon and push to bring all into such a system, we will all benefit. ~ Jonathan Granoff

What is so unnerving about the candidacy of Sarah Palin is the degree to which she represents - and her supporters celebrate - the joyful marriage of confidence and ignorance . . . Ask yourself: how has "elitism" become a bad word in American politics? There is simply no other walk of life in which extraordinary talent and rigorous training are denigrated. We want elite pilots to fly our planes, elite troops to undertake our most critical missions, elite athletes to represent us in competition and elite scientists to devote the most productive years of their lives to curing our diseases. And yet, when it comes time to vest people with even greater responsibilities, we consider it a virtue to shun any and all standards of excellence. When it comes to choosing the people whose thoughts and actions will decide the fates of millions, then we suddenly want someone just like us, someone fit to have a beer with, someone down-to-earth - in fact, almost anyone, provided that he or she doesn't seem too intelligent or well educated. ~ Sam Harris

I don't think about being male or female, I just behave naturally. I think in terms of excellence in science, not gender. ~ May-Britt Moser

When you run from lies you are sprinting to truth.
When you run from ignorance you are sprinting to knowledge.
When you run from confusion you are sprinting to insight.
When you run from folly you are sprinting to wisdom.
When you run from grief you are sprinting to joy.
When you run from doubt you are sprinting to faith.
When you run from despair you are sprinting to hope.
When you run from hate you are sprinting to love.
When you run from strife you are sprinting to peace.
When you run from anger you are sprinting to patience.
When you run from despair you are sprinting to kindness.
When you run from darkness you are sprinting to freedom.
When you run from poverty you are sprinting to wealth.
When you run from lowliness you are sprinting to prominence.
When you run from dishonor you are sprinting to nobility.
When you run from obscurity you are sprinting to fame.
When you run from weakness you are sprinting to strength.
When you run from loss you are sprinting to gain.
When you run from mediocrity you are sprinting to excellence.
When you run from failure you are sprinting to success. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Identify with excellence, put your name on your work, and both your work and name will stand the test of time. ~ Denis Waitley

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. ~ Mario Andretti

Now the goodness that we have to consider is clearly human goodness, since the good or happiness which we set out to seek was human good and human happiness. But human goodness means in our view excellence of soul, not excellence of body; ~ Aristotle.

Mastery in work and in life is about committing yourself to being excellent in everything you do, no matter how small and no matter if no one is watching. Do you practice excellence in your most private moments? ~ Robin Sharma

You make a product, and you put it out, and you do it with as much excellence and also wisdom as possible, and then it's the Lord that drives it and determines where it will go. ~ David A.R. White

Enthusiasm, if fueled by inspiration and perseverance, travels with passion and its destination is excellence. ~ Napoleon Hill

Far more humbling to me was a letter I received years later from Sergeant Talbert. Referring to the attack at the intersection, he wrote, "Seeing you in the middle of that road, wanting to move, was too much. You were my total inspiration. All my boys felt the same way." "Tab" was far too generous with his compliments. His own action at Carentan personified his excellence as both a soldier and a leader. He helped clear that intersection and carried a wounded Lipton to safety. Later when the Germans finally counterattacked, Talbert was everywhere, directing his men to the right place, supervising their fire, before he himself was wounded and evacuated. ~ Dick Winters

It is the challenge for every leader to develop and invest in those he depends on, to ensure his or her vision is realized in the way it has been put upon the leader's heart. These key people will enhance the success or taint the leadership image and brand of the visionary. ~ Archibald Marwizi

And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence. ~ John Dryden

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work. ~ Hosea Ballou

Once you make the requisite personal commitment to make your success deliberate, that commitment must translate into a definition of higher personal standards meant to depict the true impression of what you have become or are becoming within. ~ Archibald Marwizi

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. ~ Oscar Wilde

Two of the things to look out for are that operational cash flows should match or be close to profit levels, and current assets should exceed current liabilities. ~ Matthew Kidman

Never settle for anything less than your best. ~ Brian Tracy

The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

You need to use you imagined view of the future you dream of, then paint the statement in words, to state that clear dream of your desired future. ~ Archibald Marwizi

Excellence means representing the reputation of Christ well. It means doing all things as best as you can. ~ Stephen Kendrick

STOP TREATING DOPE PEOPLE LIKE THEY'RE REGULAR ~ Qwana Reynolds-Frasier

For over 220 years, Marines have served at the end of America's operational reach - on freedom's far frontiers. These Marines are the backbone of the ARG/MEU (SOC) team, our regional commanders' force of choice for both forward presence and crisis response. ~ Tom Clancy

There must be a clear distinction between wishing and believing. A wish is a hazy thread of desires that leaves room for the winds of doubt to toss it about, meaning it might happen by chance or not. A belief has no equivocation; it is clear, stubborn and deliberate in taking hold of what remains yet unseen by the physical eye. If there is no visible way, a belief will draft the way, create the way, walk the path and reach the desired destination. ~ Archibald Marwizi

In urging all writers to be steadfast in reliance on the ultimate victory of excellence, we should no less strenuously urge upon them to beware of the intemperate arrogance which attributes failure to a degraded condition of the public mind. The instinct which leads the world to worship success is not dangerous. The book which succeeds accomplishes its aim. The book which fails may have many excellencies, but they must have been misdirected. ~ George Henry Lewes

If you chase money,
it will run from you.
If you chase excellence,
it will run to you.
Give your soul to money,
and you will lose it.
Give your soul to helping people,
and you will gain it. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo