Orison Swett Marden Quotes

The best is the enemy of the good.

Good is often the enemy of best.

Good is good, but better carrieth it.

Good is the enemy of great.

If it were better, it wouldn't be as good.

If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

I don't care how small the parts are, as long as they're good.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.

Good enough never is.

I want things to be the best they can be. I want greatness.

To me, the only sin is mediocrity.

Our goal has never been to make the most. It's always been to make the best.

The good is the greatest rival of the best.

Rate the intensive above the extensive. The perfect does not lie in quantity, but in quality.

Better to have a single perfect diamond than a sack of flawed stones.

It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a poor one; so I would have no work of art, no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.

One should always try to do the best you possibly can. I'm not in a race to the finish line - I won't put anything out until it's completely ready. You want to keep it special and unique for the customer.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

I won't do anything unless it's the absolute best.

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.