“Average is always a safe choice, and it is the most dangerous choice you can make.”
-Erwin Raphael McManus

Average never yields anything more than average and usually much less. Average thinking and actions will only guarantee you misery, uncertainty, and failure. Rid yourself of everything that is average including the advice you get and friends you keep. Sound too tough? Remember that success is your duty, obligation, and responsibility. And since there is no shortage of success, any apparent limitations you are experiencing might simply be the result of thinking and acting average. Rid yourself of every concept of average. Study what average people do and prohibit yourself and your team from considering average as an option. Surround yourself with exceptional thinkers and doers. Let your friends, family, and work associates know that you treat average like a terminal disease. Remember, average anything will never get you to an extraordinary life. Look up the word average and see for yourself what it holds for you – typical, ordinary, common. That alone should be enough to abandon the concept from all your considerations.

…and as Grant Cardone states; Any undertaking that includes average will fail you sooner or later – average doesn’t work in any area of life. Anything conducted in standard amounts simply won’t get the job done. The normal levels of action at which most people operate fail to take into account the effects of various forces – such as gravity, age, resistance, timing, and the unexpected. When average actions hit any resistance, competition, loss or lack of interest, negative or challenging market conditions, or all of these, you will find your project tumbling down.

“I am not more gifted than anybody else. I am just more curious than the average person and I will not give up a problem until I have found the proper solution.”
-Albert Einstein

“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”
-Jim Rohn

“The average person puts in only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes its hat off to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.”
-Andrew Carnegie

“The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.”
-John C. Maxwell