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Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.