  In this contribution I will try to give an overview of what has been achieved
in constituent quark models of mesons and baryons by a comparison of some
selected results from various ansaetze with experimental data. In particular I
will address the role of relativistic covariance, the nature of the effective
quark forces, the status of results on electromagnetic and strong-decay
observables beyond the mere mass spectra, as well as some unresolved issues in
hadron spectroscopy.
