Ram Shriram Quotes

It's better to do something really really well and thorough, than I think to have a surface level version of a lot of different things.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

When you do everything to make the very best product, it also means you're very focused on just a few products.

The best is the enemy of the good.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

You can only do so many things great, and you should cast aside everything else.

It took me a long time to figure out that I didn't have to do everything, that it was actually a lot more helpful if I did a couple things really, really well than a whole bunch of things really badly, or nothing at all, because the whole thing was overwhelming.

My iPhone background says, 'If you build it, they'll come.' You know, quality over quantity. And I really live by that.

I admit I'm choosy. That's because I like to concentrate on what I'm doing.

I learned the value of focus. I learned it is better to do one product well than two products in a mediocre way.

If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.

You can't take everything that is offered to you. I pass on a lot of stuff, because I truly believe that I will shine better if I could do it 200 percent rather than do it 80 percent and make it so-so.

Strive for excellence in few things, rather than good performance in many.

Good is often the enemy of best.

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

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

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

Pursuit of perfection is futile. Instead, I prioritize and often realize goals or tasks I've been aiming for just aren't that important.

Sometimes expanding your game isn't better. Sometimes shrinking your game is a little bit better and really get to the things you do well.

I get up in the morning and get to bed at night, and between, I bring equivalent dedication to everything I do, with a horror of the inaccurate and the half-baked.

I don't want to be jack of all, master of none. I want to focus completely and excel as an actor with every project.

I like to do the simple things really well, keep the ball ticking.

If I'm going to do something, I'll do it properly or not at all.

The philosophy at Valve and Gearbox is that if things can't be done better, they shouldn't be done at all.

I am a very zone-specific person. For example, if I put all the pieces of a puzzle together, it's done, so there is nothing to look forward to.