“The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.”
William Arthur Ward
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
Albert Einstein
“Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.”
Warren G. Bennis
“Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.”
Herman Melville
“Today's manufacturing output figures were mediocre and disappointing overall,”
David Kern
“There needs to be some level of rewarding excellence and punishing mediocrity.”
Jim Johnson
“Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.”
Oscar Wilde