Good Enough Quotes

The best is the enemy of the good.

Better is the enemy of good.

There's an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things.

There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.

I think that many Californians have been accustomed to, have normalized, that being good sometimes is good enough.

I'm not the fastest writer. I can't just crank out ideas that are good enough.

I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's.

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Lower the bar. Actually spending ten minutes clearing off one shelf is better than fantasizing about spending a weekend cleaning out the basement.

You know what GED stands for? Good Enough Diploma.

Someone will say, 'Well, that's good enough.' As soon as I hear 'Good enough,' it really bothers me. I spend as much time as I think I can on anything I do. I try to do that with the people that work with me. I try to get the best out of them.

Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.

See, this was why I liked coffee. You couldn’t screw up making coffee. Even the bad stuff was good.

There comes a time where delay, to get a slightly better decision, is worse than action to get a pretty good decision.

Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time.

What is perfect? Journey, a thing doesn't have to be perfect to be fine. That goes for a picture. That goes for life....Things can be good enough.

We don't have to be brilliant.

Sometimes, we're so focused on being consistent that we also lower the bar on amazing. After all, the thinking goes, if we can't be amazing all the time, better to reset the expectation to merely good. Which robs us of the ability to (sometimes) be amazing.

Constantly measuring ourselves against others sours and shortens our lives, robbing us of the very things we think it will bring: prosperity, love, inner peace, the knowledge that we’re good enough.

Say "no" to the good and say "yes" to the best.

A little and good fills the trencher.

When we started publishing, you had to be better than good. You had to be excellent. But as long as people are reading, I don't care what they're reading.

The best is the enemy of the good enough.

Good is the enemy of great.. The vast majority of good companies remain just that - good, but not great.

Good is often the enemy of best.

Nobody can tell me that if players are good enough, they will come through. That is not true. There are plenty of players who are good enough.