Exceed Quotes

• The first step in exceeding your customer's expectations is to know those expectations.

  Roy H. Williams

  Funny, Loyalty, Educational

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• I've learned to never expect or require performances that exceed the player's ability. If they just equal their ability, that's what you want.

  Ned Colletti

  Player, Want, I've Learned

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• The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Ambition

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• You have the ability, right now, to exceed all your previous levels of accomplishment

  Brian Tracy

  Accomplishment, Levels, Ability

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Aug 15, 2013

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• A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When your memories exceed your dreams, the end is near.

  Andy Stanley

  Dream, Memories, Ends

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• You become financially free when your passive income exceeds your expenses.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Money, Secret

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Apr 02, 2015

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• Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.

  Arleigh Burke

  Leadership, Navy, Use

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• When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth century and seems quite likely to do again in the twenty-first, capitalism automatically generates arbitrary and unsustainable inequalities that radically undermine the meritocratic values on which democratic societies are based.

  Thomas Piketty

  Growth, Democracy, Society

  Thomas Piketty (2017). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.1, Harvard University Press

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• When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall.

  Paul Harvey

  Income, May, Downfall

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• Consider well what your strength is equal to, and what exceeds your ability.

  Horace

  Ability, Equal, Wells

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• Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.

  Amelia Earhart

  Realization, Anticipation, Sometimes

  Amelia Earhart (2009). “Last Flight”, p.46, Crown

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• To double your net worth, double your self-worth. Because you will never exceed the height of your self-image.

  Robin Sharma

  Inspirational, Success, Self Worth

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from May 27, 2011

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• It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Witty, Humorous

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• Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are likely to meet. Because good manners build sturdy walls, our distaste for intimacy makes us exceedingly cordial "ships that pass in the night." As long as you remain a stranger we will be your friend forever.

  Florence King

  Friendship, Relationship, Wall

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• I don't want the horse to get trained, because training the horse is absolutely finite. But if you get the horse to where he operates as if to be your legs, an extension of you, you've far-exceeded that whole training notion.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Training, Legs

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• There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other neurons in the brain. Based on this, people have calculated that the number of permutations and combinations of brain activity exceeds the number of elementary particles in the universe.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Numbers, People, Brain

  "The neurons that shaped civilization". TEDIndia Talk, www.ted.com. November 2009.

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• The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.

  Marcus Terentius Varro

  Numbers, Grace, Three

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• Oh! might I kiss those eyes of fire, A million scarce would quench desire; Still would I steep my lips in bliss, And dwell an age on every kiss; Nor then my soul should sated be, Still would I kiss and cling to thee: Nought should my kiss from thine dissever, Still would we kiss and kiss for ever; E'en though the numbers did exceed The yellow harvest's countless seed; To part would be a vain endeavour: Could I desist? -ah! never-never.

  Lord Byron

  Eye, Kissing, Yellow

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.38, Delphi Classics

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• [On Russia:] In every way, there is something gigantic about this people: ordinary dimensions have no applications whatever to it. I do not mean by this that true greatness and stability are never met with; but their boldness, their imaginativeness knows no bounds. With them everything is colossal rather than well-proportioned, audacious rather than well-considered, and if they do not attain their goals, it is because they exceed them.

  Madame de Stael

  Mean, Greatness, Russia

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• Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.

  Sam Walton

  Giving, Expectations, Want

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.316, Bantam

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• In life, the number of beginnings is exactly equal to the number of endings ... In poetry, the number of beginnings so far exceeds the number of endings that we cannot even conceive of it.

  Mary Ruefle

  Numbers, Equal

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.1, Wave Books

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• Every person exceeds our power of measurement.

  Charlotte Mason

  Measurement, Persons

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• Work harder on yourself than you do on your job. If you work hard on your job, you can make a living. If you work hard on yourself, you can make a fortune... Income seldom exceeds personal development.

  Jim Rohn

  Jobs, Hard Work, Income

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• Take it from me: no matter how few or how many children you have, or how little or how much money you make, your expenses are going to exceed your income by approximately a hundred dollars a month.

  Teresa Bloomingdale

  Family, Children, Dollars

  Teresa Bloomingdale (1982). “Up a Family Tree”, G K Hall & Company

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