It's for management to enthuse & motivate employees towards excellence in service; the profit incentive doesn't last
I really believe that the single hardest thing in business is building a company that does repeatable innovation. . . and just has this ongoing culture of excellence as it grows.
Excellence matters, and technology advances so fast that the potential for improvement is tremendous. So, since becoming CEO again, I've pushed hard to increase our velocity, improve our execution, and focus on the big bets that will make a difference in the world.
The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive; and the interest of learning requires that they should be discovered and stigmatized, before they have the sanction of antiquity conferred upon them, and become precedents of indisputable authority.
Emphasize the best, and minimize the rest
My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues. But whenever I become absorbed in the beauty of a face, in the excellence of a single feature, I feel I've lost what's really there been seduced by someone else's standard of beauty or by the sitter's own idea of the best in him. That's not usually the best. So each sitting becomes a contest.
The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art.
There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.
It sure is boring to be around people who are in character all the time. I always find it's closer to mental illness than acting excellence.
Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress.