Fred DeLuca Quotes

I want to perform well.

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

The harder you work, the less mistakes you make. The fewer mistakes you make, the better your chances of winning.

You talk about results being more important than performances but, ideally, you want to put the two together.

Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.

I only scream and scratch when something's only 'really good' or 'good', I want to be great, or let's go home.

Any man who goes into anything in life and does it better than the average will have a successful life. If he does it worse than the average, his life will not be successful. And no business can exist in which success cannot be won on that basis.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

If we're gonna win, we have to play up to and beyond our potential. We're capable of doing that.

In the end, the work shows if you're good.

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

I just want to do good work.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.

I always show up to work and give it everything, and some things turn out better than others - and some things you can expect that it will come out better than others.

I think it's important to do great work.

I seek out good work.

First be best, then be first.

I think you're only as good as the work that you do.

Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.

I just want to do really good work.

You have to step up to the plate, and then hit one out of the park.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

As long as you're excellent, things work out for you.

This is the honest-to-God truth: I just focus on the work, because if my work isn't good, then I won't succeed either way.