Peter Schmeichel Quotes

No manager in the world gets good results all the time and you know there's people always ready to have a snipe. In fact I'm my own biggest critic, I really am. Because my own standards are so high, I criticise myself behind the scenes more than perhaps I should, according to people who know me well.

You're only as good as your last pass.

I think you need to have people around you whose standard is high and who don't accept anything less.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

I feel like I've set the bar fairly high, and I want to keep living up to that bar.

Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.

I think at least my philosophy of leadership is you focus more on the areas you have to improve or the mistakes than you do on your successes. And that's just how I am in real life. I don't want to let down my customers, my employees, my shareholders.

Even when I have a good game, you can still do things better.

I always consider myself as good as my last film. I tend to analyse my work very critically.

I've realized my best and worst critic is my director.

If someone comes and tells me I've done great work, that's not what I want to hear. But if someone comes and tells me that this could have been a notch better, I'd spend an hour with the person and hear him or her out.

I'm not easily satisfied with things. I always want to do better. I always want to improve. I always want to grow.

We put pressure on ourselves because we want to be so great; we want to be the best team possible that we can be.

If I cannot be the best or operate at the best highest level, then I need to go away.

Of course I am doing a good job, but you can always improve, and I just leave it up to people outside, around me or whatever, to judge on that.

Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.

Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.

I always say I've given 24 insufficient performances and I'm looking forward to the time in my life when I'll do something that I think is good. There's always stuff you can do better, stuff that maybe you didn't uncover enough. But if you do something that you truly believe is perfect, then that's got to be the last movie you do.

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

The selfish thing about an athlete is you always look at the side of things where you say I could've done that better.

I put so much pressure on myself to raise the bar with each and every project. I treat it like every film is my last, and I make sure I pour everything I have into every film I make because if I'm not trying to improve, someone else will.

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Every time I make a mistake with a company, I write it out and try to figure out why it happened.

I like to knuckle down and get on with my job. I'll make mistakes, I'm bound to, but I'll write them down and I'll learn from them.