Steve Jobs Quotes

The most important thing is winning, not breaking the world record.

Before we talk about stylish performance, we need to think about winning. That's the most important thing.

First we become the best, then we'll become first.

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.

Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning.

Whether I played marbles, whether I played football or slam anything else, I wanted to excel.

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.

Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance.

If I'm spending time on something, I may as well do good as opposed to average.

To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.

Excellence always sells.

I suppose I'm happy when I know I've given a horse a good ride, no matter where it is. I like playing golf in the summer; I'm happy when I hit a good shot, and I enjoy watching Arsenal playing beautiful football, but overall I can't believe you can be happy when you're not winning. I honestly can't accept that.

We simply must do better.

First be best, then be first.

The objective is to do things well in London.

We've done all the work that HRC wanted on the twin and the project has been completed. We were consistently up there with the top guys and that is what HRC wanted to prove.

If you deliver excellence right now, that gives you the best shot at the best future you've got coming.

I made a better decision in choosing my team. Sure, I had a bigger choice of players to choose from - but I couldn't have asked for a harder working group of players who did an incredible job.

I want to perform well.

Win with ability, not with numbers.

We're going to make certain that we set a very high standard for ourselves.

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

Quality without results is pointless. Results without quality is boring.

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.

When you play well, when you perform, you have to show every game that you are that good.