Joe Bastianich Quotes

In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.

Quality for me is key, and this stands true in every facet of my business from real estate, hotels, and fashion.

You're only as good as your last performance.

In Madrid, the demand is maximum, and you have to always be at the top. If you are not, doubts come.

I want good work.

I don't set myself targets. Last season I scored hat-trick against Wolfsburg and three days later, that was forgotten, you're about to be judged again. When you've done well, you don't want another game, you just want to feel great. When you've done badly, you can't wait for another chance to come.

The food business is very tough, but there's also a lot of love and very giving.

It seems always to have been difficult to have been a New York Philharmonic conductor because of the nature of New York. We are in direct competition with the great orchestras in the world who come to play in our hall or in Carnegie, and we are constantly compared. I think that 's a good thing.

You're only as good as your last pass.

The one thing you can't do when you're highly ranked is relax.

Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.

Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.

Since I became a favorite in every race, it's just another burden that I have to bear.

Winning in my business is everything.

Excellence always sells.

One thing I've learned: My intentions are clear in terms of quality.

Performance is something we all strive to be better at. I'm no different than that. Who wants to look bad?

People judge you by the way you play in the playoffs.

The talent God gave me is beautiful and wonderful, but it is difficult because you are always facing other people keen to judge you. There are few people with such talent, so there are few able to judge what I am doing.

With roasting, you've really got to bring your A-game. I hate to admit it, but I probably think and obsess more about the roasts than my own series. Because there's so much attention focused on the roasts. It's like the 'Super Bowl' of comedy. Everybody is going to talk about it. Forever.

It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people.

If you can dismiss the best in the world, it means you're doing something right and have the quality needed to perform at the highest level.

One gets a bit picky after having the success of something like 'FlashForward!'

I basically try to give people top quality.

Quality. That's the key. Everything I do, I want it to have that stamp that people like Jay Z, for instance, have on all the things they touch.