Millard Drexler Quotes

I've only had two rules: Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.

I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

I just think if you're going to do something, do it properly.

No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

A thing well done is worth doing.

I wanted nothing else than to make the object as perfect as possible.

Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration.

I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

You have to pay attention to the work on the page and make it as good as possible because it could be your last.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.

I think it's important to do great work.

The most prepared are the most dedicated.

The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.

You have to give everything to every job you do.

Something I've learned is that it actually takes a lot of work to make something great.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

I'm committed to try to make the product the best I possibly can.

Whatever I do, I have to put 100 percent of my focus into it because I don't like to do a bad job.

I don't know what 'genius' even means. It's just a matter of keeping your eye on the ball.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

Honestly, I just keep my nose to the grindstone and keep working. At the end of the day, that's usually one of those things that's going to get you ahead.

Well, uh, I don't know another way than to work at the top level, which is what I do every day.