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.
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
You have to do more than you get paid for because that’s where the fortune is.
I got my first job by exceeding expectations.
To be honest, I was never expecting to be in a World Cup final, a Euro final, a Champions League final, a Europa League final. I've done much more than I dreamt, and that's incredible.
The seventh factor of the basic ingredients of genius, as determined from an extensive analysis of the lives of outstanding men of this nation, is *the habit of going the extra mile.* You will never be a genius unless you make it a habit to do more and better than you are paid to do, every single day of your life.
The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
It is willingness of people to give of themselves over and above the demands of the job that distinguishes the great from the merely adequate.
What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Always do more than what you get paid for. It makes you a valuable person.
The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what the task may be. This is a habit followed by all successful people since the beginning of time. Therefore I saith the surest way to doom yourself to mediocrity is to perform only the work for which you are paid.
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
You can't succeed by being good. That's what you get paid for. You can't succeed by being excellent. That's what you're expected to do. You can only succeed by being outstanding.
To be an overachiever you have to be an over believer.
I don't think anybody wants to be mediocre.
When I write I know that I'm going to have to produce 40 percent more than I need.
Getting people to go above and beyond the call of duty can be achieved but only if you, the artist, are willing to go above and beyond any and all calls of duty yourself.
Make your work deeper and better than those before you, and eventually someone will notice. If you don't think the work is better than what you've seen, then go back until it is.
This whole career has been way more than I ever even imagined or dreamed.
The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
I feel that your ambitions should always exceed the budget. That no matter what budget you're doing, you should be dreaming bigger than the budget you have, and then it's a matter of reigning it in to the reality. You try to make things count.
Future is a real workaholic, so he's the type of guy that's gonna do more than enough songs to make sure you got everything you need.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked.
