World Class Quotes

• Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it; they feel it; they experience it before hey actually do it. They begin with the end in mind.

  Stephen Covey

  Athlete, Class, Mind

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• Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.

  Bill Gates

  Class, Focus, World

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• Donald Trump is pulling off a world-class scam here. I mean, he's telling people he's all these things that he's never been his entire life. He says he's fighting for the little guy, the working class. He has spent his entire business career sticking it to working people.

  Marco Rubio

  Mean, Fighting, Class

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• Building a World Class Company is a commitment to the integration of passion, purpose, and practice.

  Michael Gerber

  Passion, Commitment, Practice

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• The way that you become world-class is... by asking good questions.

  Tim Ferriss

  Class, Good Questions, Asking

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• The key to becoming world-class in your endeavors is to build your performance around world-class routines. It can be difficult, even futile, to predict or control what will show up in the middle of your workday. But you can almost always control how your day starts and ends. I have routines for both.

  Darren Hardy

  Keys, Class, World

  Darren Hardy (2011). “The Compound Effect”, p.79, Hachette UK

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• Truly world-class firms are always examining their business processes and continuously seeking solutions to improve in key areas, such as lead time reduction, cost cutting, exceeding customer expectations, streamlining processes, shortening time to market for new products, and managing the global operation.

  Daniel Baldwin

  Cutting, Keys, Class

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• World-class performance comes by striving for a target just out of reach, but with a vivid awareness of how the gap might be breached.  Over time, through constant repetition and deep concentration, the gap will disappear, only for a new target to be created, just out of reach once again.

  Matthew Syed

  Class, Target, World

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• Thinkers, makers and traders are the DNA of the world class company

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Dna, Class, World

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• If you look at the world-class performers at the top of the game, their numbers are just exceptional and that is the level he is at.

  Brendan Rodgers

  Football, Games, Class

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• In England, Rooney is a world-class footballer in the world.

  Paul Merson

  Class, World, England

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• Startups are painful, stressful and at times demoralizing. You need to be a true believer in the vision of what you are doing. You need to passionate about it and love what you’re doing. If you don’t, there is no way you can sustain the hours, stress and disappointment. There’s no way you’re going to be able to convince investors, customers and most importantly recruit a world-class team if you not building something you think is going to change the world.

  Steve Blank

  Disappointment, Stress, Team

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• It doesn't matter how much you make, what matters is what you become. Stay hungry.. Learn.. you'll become world-class

  Azim Jamal

  What Matters, Class, World

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• A world-class playboy once told me that the key to mesmerising women is to listen to them and look deeply into their eyes.

  George Hamilton

  Eye, Keys, Class

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• You can't be great at everything, but you are world-class at something. Go. Figure out what that is. It's how you win.

  Josh Linkner

  Winning, Class, World

  Twitter post from Dec 22, 2011

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• Learning to accept failure on multiple levels is, to my way of thinking, the key to become a world-class therapist. But that means humility, and setting your ego aside, while you develop superb new technical skills.

  David D. Burns

  Mean, Humility, Thinking

  "Answers to Questions from a Psychology Today Blogger". feelinggood.com. October 24, 2013.

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• Ive been involved with Carnegie Hall for the last 13 years, and Chairman for the last six. I feel really good about what weve done growing our educational programs there, building a board that has made Carnegie Hall really a world-class institution.

  Sanford I. Weill

  Educational, Years, Class

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• Paolo Maldini is neither a legend nor a world class player!

  Carlton Palmer

  Player, Class, World

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• The difference between my world record and many world class runners is mental fortitude. I ran believing in mind over matter.

  Derek Clayton

  Believe, Differences, Class

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• Conservatives cannot govern well for the same reason that vegetarians cannot prepare a world-class boeuf bourguignon: If you believe that what you are called upon to do is wrong, you are not likely to do it very well.

  Alan Wolfe

  Believe, Class, World

  "Republicans: good at theatre, dreadful at governing - as we'll see tomorrow" by Michael Tomasky, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2011.

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• Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete.

  Edwin Moses

  Athlete, Class, Parent

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• The addition of Beats will make our music lineup even better, from free streaming with iTunes Radio to a world-class subscription service in Beats, and of course buying music from the iTunes Store as customers have loved to do for years.

  Eddy Cue

  Years, Class, World

  "Apple Confirms It's Buying Beats For $3 Billion" by Adam Fleischer, www.mtv.com. May 28, 2014.

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• I might have to consider coaching- I'm getting too old to be a world class runner and my mind isn't gone enough to become an official.

  Sebastian Coe

  Class, Coaching, Mind

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• I will be the one lifting that trophy, not Paolo Maldini. Imagine me hoisting the trophy. It is an image I have in my mind and I want to make it a reality. We have world-class players and, believe me, they are in the mood to do it. The atmosphere around the club at the moment is just top-class.

  Steven Gerrard

  Soccer, Believe, Player

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• Having a home away from the media glare is important to world-class athletes.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Home, Athlete, Media

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