A Quote by Colin Powell

I have never seen a good organization where the standards weren't high.

Colin Powell

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Colin Powell
American - Statesman
Born: April 5, 1937

High personal standards aren't enough for organizational excellence. You've got to be intolerant of low standards in others. . . . If you accommodate questionable practices in others who touch your organization, you risk soiling its reputation. Anybody whose hands aren't clean can get the place dirty.

Price Pritchett

Good enough never is. Set your standards so high that even the flaws are considered excellent.

Debbi Fields

Maybe the standards should be higher to be an officer. People will say there area high standards, but clearly they're not high enough.

Brandon Marshall

We do all, myself included, we tend to hold ourselves to pretty low standards. But when it comes to judging public figures or politicians or people we've never met, we tend to hold people to very high standards, and, if we held ourselves to those standards, we'd always fall short.

Moby

Military organization, like religious organization, can be seen as a paradigm of organization in general.

Robert Shea

There has to be active, hands-on management in concert with the manager to lead the organization and make sure that the standards that we set for the organization as a whole are being lived up to.

Theo Epstein

I sort of set myself really high standards which is good and bad. If I know that I've done all I can to prepare, that's when I race the best and in '09 I was going through a lot of emotional ups and downs and I was never as fit as I would have liked to have been. So I never felt comfortable.

Stephanie Rice

Set goals - high goals for you and your organization. When your organization has a goal to shoot for, you create teamwork, people working for a common good.

Bear Bryant

I've seen some amazing independent wrestling shows. I've seen high quality matches, I've seen high level talent.

Laurel Van Ness

But when we get enough people who don't care, and who don't accept personal responsibility for high ethical standards, our organization gets the "M" disease. Mediocrity. Anybody in the place can be a carrier. By the same token, every individual can carry the cure: the ethics of excellence.

Price Pritchett

My father was a photographer at the National Bureau of Standards. A self-educated man, he never finished high school, but in his career at the National Bureau of Standards, he made many useful inventions and eventually became chief of the Photographic Technology Section.

Raymond Davis, Jr.

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.

Greg Anderson

The standards to get in are very high. We don't want to lower those standards.

Hugh Shelton

As Governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards.

George W. Bush

I set very high standards, normally for myself. For other people, I try to lower my standards.

Carrie Lam

Every organization needs to be introspective, transparent, and honest with itself. This only works if everyone is unified on the goals and purposes of the organization and there is trust within the team. High-performing, successful organizations build cultures of introspection and trust and never lose sight of their purpose.

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