Patrice Motsepe famous quotes

One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.
-- Patrice Motsepe

#Perfection #High Standards #Mediocre

The export of oil, the export of minerals, will for many decades continue to be a critical part for the growth of African economies. The emphasis is on diversification. We have for many years - not just in South Africa but in many parts of the continent - spoken about beneficiation. And I think part of the secret, in relation to beneficiation, is you have got to make it attractive, profitable for the private sector - and it will take off. You may have to look at mechanisms like tax concessions... You will not have to worry about beneficiation if it makes commercial sense.
-- Patrice Motsepe

#Thinking #Years #Oil

My parents insisted that we should always be respectful, never forget where we come from and that we are part of the challenges facing our people
-- Patrice Motsepe

#People #Parent #Challenges

All our businesses comprise of the BEST people money can buy. My policy is hire the best and pay them well
-- Patrice Motsepe

#People #Pay #Policy

I'm a sinner. I fumble. People must see me as one of them. The things that worry them, must worry me
-- Patrice Motsepe

#Worry #People #Sinner

In all her twisted perfection she had made me fall helplessly in love with her. A life without her in it seemed pointless.

I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic. One must see the ideal in one's own mind. It is like a memory - an awareness -of perfection.

Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping we won't find in another what we know is in ourselves, all the cowardice, weakness, laziness, dishonesty, compromise, and stupidity. We throw a cordon of love around the chosen one and decide that everything within it will somehow be free of our faults. We locate inside another a perfection that eludes us within ourselves, and through our union with the beloved hope to maintain (against the evidence of all self-knowledge) a precarious faith in our species.

In business, I've discovered that my purpose is to do my best to my utmost ability every day. That's my standard. I learned early in my life that I had high standards.

That's the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future events and they never are, if you have high standards of accuracy.

I'm really shallow when I come to guys. I only date really good-looking, well-endowed guys, with great bodies. My friends are always going on at me. I'm like. 'I can't help it! I'm just a woman with high standards!'

One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge

Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful.

If any of you have a desire to be mediocre, you will probably find that you have already achieved your ambition.