When there is genuine vision (as opposed to the all-too-familiar "vision statement"), people excel, and learn, not because they are told to, but because they want to.

- Peter Senge

Often paraphrased as: "Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

- Vincent van Gogh

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

- Aristotle

Omnia praeclara tam difficilia quam rara sunt. All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

- Baruch Spinoza

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

- Pearl S. Buck

Is it so bad to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson