Speech at BEST Podgorica's forum for Entrepreneurs, 7 July 2017.
“Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.”
“It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required.”
As cited in The Forbes Book of Business Quotations (2007), Ed. Goodwin, Black Dog Publishing, p. 168, ISBN 1579127215
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Reported in Q Magazine interview - Jan 2015
Tribute to his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, read at Joseph Kennedy's funeral by Senator Ted Kennedy, November 20, 1969. Reported in Congressional Record (25 November 1969), vol. 115, p. 35877
On the parents of her husband, in The Christian Science Monitor (2 July 1974)
As quoted in The Subconscious Diet : It's Not What You Put in Your Mouth; It Is What You Put in Your Mind (2005) by Hugh B. Sanders, p. 104 <!-- also quoted in The First Step : A Peek at the Real World (2006) by Gudmundur O. Sigurdarson, p. 41 -->
Context: Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting — in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard — reaching for the highest that is in us — becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
Variant: Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by-product of that preparation.
