Steve Ells Quotes

Strive for excellence in few things, rather than good performance in many.

You can only do so many things great, and you should cast aside everything else.

I don't believe in doing everything and being mediocre at all of them. I believe in being good at one thing.

I believe in doing what I am best at. I don't want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.

When you have a deep focus, you can't go wrong at all. Not when you're an expert at what you do.

Focus on one thing and do one thing well.

I would rather do two things really, really, really well than do 16 things and have 14 of them fail.

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Do a few things at mastery versus many things at mediocrity.

Focusing on one thing and doing it really, really well can get you very far.

I focus on things that are the highest value and do them perfectly.

Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.

Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.

I want to do one thing and do it well.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

When you do everything to make the very best product, it also means you're very focused on just a few products.

Everyone should be good at what they do.

No one intellect should ever strive for distinction in more than one pursuit. Those who boast of preeminence in many arts are either divinely endowed or utterly shameless or simply mad.

My basic strategy is to stick to my core business and to my area of expertise.

It's better to do something really really well and thorough, than I think to have a surface level version of a lot of different things.

I don't want to be jack of all, master of none. I want to focus completely and excel as an actor with every project.

I admit I'm choosy. That's because I like to concentrate on what I'm doing.

There's not enough said about the beauty of being able to focus on what you do well.

Sometimes it's better if you can play in only one position. You see that with other players. These guys specialise in one position and they can completely concentrate.

I cannot do a better job than a journalist. I cannot do a better job than politicians - what I can do is play my football.