How To Increase Your Value
The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
When you finish a thing you ought to be able to say to yourself: “There, I am willing to stand for that piece of work. It is not pretty well done; it is done as well as I can do it; done to a complete finish. I will stand for that. I am willing to be judged by it.”
Never be satisfied with “fairly good,” “pretty good,” “good enough,. Accept nothing short of your best. Your reputation is at stake in everything you do and your reputation is your capital. Every bit of your work, no matter how unimportant or trivial it may seem, should bear your trademark of excellence.
There is nothing like being enamored of accuracy, being grounded in thoroughness as a life-principle, of always striving for excellence.
John D. Rockefeller said,” the secret of success is to do the common duty uncommonly well.” The majority of people do not see that the steps which lead to the position above them are constructed, little by little, by the faithful performance of the common, humble, everyday duties of the position they are no filling. The thing which you are now doing will unlock or bar the door to promotion.
--Orison Swett Marden, Founder of Success Magazine
Taken from Og Mandino’s University of Success
