PRIDE OF PERFORMANCE

PRIDE OF PERFORMANCE


Pride of performance does not represent ego. It represents pleasure with humility. The quality of the work and the quality of the worker are inseparable. Half-hearted effort does not produce half results; it produces no results.

Three people were laying bricks. A passerby asked them what they were doing. The first one replied, "Don't you see I am making a living?" The second one said, "Don't you see I am laying bricks?" The third one said, "I am building a beautiful monument."

Here were three people doing the same thing who had totally different perspectives on what they were doing. They had three very different attitudes about their work. And would their attitude affect their performance? The answer is clearly YES.

Excellence comes when the performer takes pride in doing his best. Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it, regardless of what the job is, whether washing cars, sweeping the floor or painting a house.

DO IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME, EVERY TIME. The best insurance for tomorrow is a job well done today.

Most people forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well it was done.

"If a man is called to be street-sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Beethoven composed Music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great street-sweeper who did his job well"

- MARTIN LUTHER KING, Jr.


The feeling of a job well done is a reward in itself. It is better to do small things well than do many things poorly.


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