Think fast!!!

John works in a supermarket. A man came in and asked John for half a kilogram of butter. The boy told him they only sold 1 kg packets of butter, but the man was persistent. The boy said he'd go ask his manager what todo. John walked into the back room and said, "There's a bloody fellow out there who wants to buy only half a kilo of butter." As he finished sayingthis, he turned around to find the man standing right behind him, so he added,"And this gentleman wants to buy the other half."
The manager finished the deal and later said to John, "You almost got yourself in a lot of trouble earlier, but I must say I was impressedwith the way you got yourself out of it. You think on your feet, and I likeit a lot. Which place are you from?"
John replied, "I'm from Mexico, Sir."
"Oh, really? Why did you leave Mexico?" asked the manager.
John replied, "They're all just prostitutes and soccer players upthere."
"My wife is from Mexico," the manager said.
John replied, "Which team did she play for?"
Moral
Think fast!!!

Excellence...

German once visited a temple under construction where he saw a sculptor making an idol of God. Suddenly he noticed a similar idol lying nearby. Surprised, he asked the sculptor, "Do you need two statues of the same idol?" "No," said the sculptor without looking up, "We need only one, but the first one got damaged at the last stage." The gentleman examined the idol and found no apparent damage. "Where is the damage?" he asked. "There is a scratch on the nose of the idol." said the sculptor, still busy with his work. "Where are you going to install the idol?"

The sculptor replied that it would be installed on a pillar twenty feet high. "If the idol is that far, who is going to know that there is a scratch on the nose?" the gentleman asked. The sculptor stopped his work, looked up at the gentleman, smiled and said, "I will know it."

The desire to excel is exclusive of the fact whether someone else appreciates it or not. "Excellence" is a drive from inside, not outside. Excellence is not for someone else to notice but for your own satisfaction and efficiency... :-)