Set Higher Standards For Your Performance

Motivational Power Quote

Set Higher Standards For Your Performance

“Set higher standard for your own performance than anyone

around you, and it won’t matter whether you have a tough boss

or an easy one. It won’t matter whether the competition is

pushing you hard, because you’ll be competing with yourself.”

Rick Pitino, Basketball Coach

As I see it . . . . . . .

Set higher standards for your performance

The toughest competition that you will ever face is yourself . . . .

You can become better then you were yesterday . . . . or your performance could have peaked in your yesterday.

When you compete with yourself the objective to get a little bit better each day . . . . And when you measure your performance against your yesterdays you will continuous see improvement in yourself.

Compete against yourself and your will stretch your abilities to new heights and you will become far more competitive in the things you do.

Set higher standards for your performance . . . . and continue to stretch them  and you will find that the only real competition you have is yourself.

©2013 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Separate Yourself From the Competition

Motivational Power Quote

Separate Yourself From the Competition

“Business is not just doing deals;

business is having a great products,

doing great engineering,

and providing tremendous

service to customers.”

Ross Perot, entrepreneurs  

As I see it. . . . . . . .

Separate yourself from the competition   

Having a superior product with marginal customer service will result in an inconsistent business model with and hit and miss business success.

A business or business professional that puts the needs of their customers above their own will find that the business grows and that their customers become raving fans.  

Customers return to businesses that they can depend and have delivered on their promises of their product and services.

The quality of your customer service will determine the degree of separation that you create between yourself and the competition and if you standout or blend in.

The greater your separation becomes the more that you standout as a professional. Your customer will create a buzz about you, your business and you will receive the additional benefit of becoming a business and referral magnet.

By consistently providing superior customer service you create a consistent flow of positive customer satisfaction that will separate you from the competition and contribute to your long term success.  

©2011 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Our Toughest Competition

   Motivational Power Quote

Our Toughest Competition

“Set higher standards for your own performance

then anyone around you,

and it won’t matter whether you have

a tough boss or an easy one.

it’s won’t matter whether the competition

is pushing you hard,

because you’ll be competing

with yourself.”

Rick Pitino, basketball coach

As I see it. . . . . . . .


Our toughest competition


Our toughest competition is in your thoughts and those thoughts will influence your actions. Set higher standards for yourself and become better today then you were yesterday.


Our toughest competition is ourselves.


We compete with ourselves everyday to make ourselves better and to make our best effort.


©2010, Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author