excellence Quotes

The population of the U.S. is nearly 300 million, including many of the best educated, most talented, most resourceful, humane people on earth. By almost any measure of civilised attainment, from Nobel prize-counts on down, the U.S. leads the world by miles.

When a company seeks a new chief executive officer, or a university a new vice-chancellor, enormous trouble is taken to find the best person.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.

Virtually any pointed edifice is considered a candidate for alien engineering. After all, how could the Egyptians or Mayans have possibly stacked up stone blocks into pyramids?

There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!

Elegance is refusal.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.