John Calipari Quotes

I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

Promise little and do much.

Under promise and over deliver. People will be pleasantly surprised that you gave more than they expected. And remember that there is always room for us to be better and do better. That's what I am calling for. Not just everybody else - myself, too.

It is better to underpromise and overdeliver than vice versa. For this one need not break the law of the land.

I always thought it was important to overdeliver, and when I got one of my first jobs, writing jokes for Garry Shandling when he was hosting the Grammys, I stayed up all night and wrote a hundred jokes, and I thought, "I'm always going to be the person that gives them more than they requested, and that's why they'll want to keep me around."

I don't really consider myself one of those superstars. I just consider myself a guy that was lucky enough to win the athletic lottery many times over.

Oh, I'm just Ego's assistant. It's not anything big.

When you do more than you're paid for eventually you will get paid for more than you do. This is a basic truth that also applies to Business, Sales or anything you do. Whatever your endeavor always provide more service than you get paid for and you will develop a reputation that will separate you from the rest.

Let me be known as just the man that told you something you already knew.

There is no need to show your ability before everyone.

Modesty is humility expressed in dress.

Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.

Honorable beginnings should serve to awaken curiosity, not to heighten people's expectations. We are much better off when reality surpasses our expectations, and something turns out better than we thought it would.

Indeed, moderation is my middle name (though I do not often use it in signing legal documents)

Every step of the way, I made a point to underpromise and overdeliver. In the long run, that's the only way to ensure security in any job.

I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines.

The Truth never flaunted a sign.

Always give more in service, than you receive in payment, and customers will beat a path to your door.

I don't think I have grand visions that I will never achieve.

I'm very much a "that's so obvious, I must not mention it" kind of guy.

Excellence comes from human beings doing things of value that customers find memorable.

To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.

A simple garb is the proper costume of the vulgar; it is cut for them, and exactly suits their measure, but it is an ornament for those who have filled up their lives with great deeds. I liken them to beauty in dishabille, but more bewitching on that account.

Men of quality never appear more amiable than when their dress is plain. Their birth, rank, title and its appendages are at best indivious and as they do not need the assistance of dress, so, by their disclaiming the advantage of it, they make their superiority sit more easy.