Richard Koch Quotes

There are a handful of talented individuals that are always going to do a better job. If you look at the amount of TV shows or movies, there's only a handful that rise to the top.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Almost everyone does just enough to get by. Those who achieve spectacular success also do enough to get by; then they add a little bit of extra effort. That little bit of extra effort makes an enormous difference.

You can't succeed by being good. That's what you get paid for. You can't succeed by being excellent. That's what you're expected to do. You can only succeed by being outstanding.

If you want extraordinary results you must put in extraordinary effort.

The seventh factor of the basic ingredients of genius, as determined from an extensive analysis of the lives of outstanding men of this nation, is *the habit of going the extra mile.* You will never be a genius unless you make it a habit to do more and better than you are paid to do, every single day of your life.

Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.

Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

I would argue that's because we had a bunch of smart people running around here. They were coming in and working very hard and many of them had left jobs in which they made significantly more money.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

The way I did it, every job was A+.

If you demand the best, sometimes you get it.

Just because I'm not dancing on a video every five seconds doesn't mean I'm not working.

Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.

I'm used to being efficient and a guy that can do more than the average guy can.

Work harder than anyone else around you.

If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding.

Lengthen your stride/go the extra mile

Over deliver in all you do and soon you will be rewarded for the extra effort.

You don't need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well.

Put 'going the extra mile' to work as part of one's daily habit

Most people, especially successful people, are hard-working. They want to participate. They want to do things well.

The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it.