Brian Tracy Quotes

Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.

If you can dismiss the best in the world, it means you're doing something right and have the quality needed to perform at the highest level.

Do your job brilliantly and the cream will rise to the top.

One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.

Never settle for anything less than your best.

Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.

We strivin' for perfection.

You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because they're different. They expect certain standards, and they're usually very difficult people to work with.

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

Quality is easy to talk but hard to make.

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.

Demand excellence.

Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.

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

When you have had a taste of excellence, you cannot go back to mediocrity.

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.

Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

I want things to be the best they can be. I want greatness.