The excellent person manages himself. He will not allow the environment to manage him.
“The present and the future belong to believers and practitioners of excellence; not the "dinosaurs.”
“As sure as shadow follows substance and the sun rises on the east and sets on the west, a person who exercises professional excellence will be followed by success.”
“If you have to do the work, do it well, with all your heart.”
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all...”
“Trademark yourself with the mark of excellence.”