Charlie Trotter - I have always looked at it this way: If you striv

I have always looked at it this way: If you strive like crazy for perfection - an all-out assault on total perfection - at the very least you will hit a high level of excellence, and then you might be able to sleep at night. To accomplish something truly significant, excellence has to become a life plan.

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Clarke, Paul. Lessons in Excellence from Charlie Trotter. Ten Speed Press, 1999, p. 11.

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