Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.
—John Ruskin, 1853
It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master’s fame.
—Orison Swett Marden
17
People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.
—Howard W. Newton
18
Quick and well seldom go together.
—European proverb
Perfection is the dream of imperfection that refuses to wake up.
—Fausto Cercignani, 2004
Good is the enemy of perfect.
19
—European proverb
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
—European proverb
20
***
Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
—Rudyard Kipling, 1928
There are people who think that everything is sane and sensible that is done with solemn
face.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
21
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you
necessarily wise because you are grave.
—Sydney Smith, 1840
You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you’re doing is
work or play.
—Warren Beatty, 2004
Play by the rules, but be ferocious.
—Bill Bowerman
22
17
Included, without a date, into all recent collections of his works.
18
As quoted, without a date, in several reliable sources, starting not later than 1945.
19
Not very surprisingly, the reversed version of this proverb is even more popular.
20
This may be just a popular paraphrase of a longer line by Heinrich Bullinger.
21
From his Notebook E (1775-1776).
22
Frequently misattributed to Phil Knight, who just quoted (with a reverent reference) Bowerman,
his own athletic coach and business partner.
20
On Work and Leisure
—John Ruskin, 1853
It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master’s fame.
—Orison Swett Marden
17
People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.
—Howard W. Newton
18
Quick and well seldom go together.
—European proverb
Perfection is the dream of imperfection that refuses to wake up.
—Fausto Cercignani, 2004
Good is the enemy of perfect.
19
—European proverb
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
—European proverb
20
***
Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
—Rudyard Kipling, 1928
There are people who think that everything is sane and sensible that is done with solemn
face.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
21
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you
necessarily wise because you are grave.
—Sydney Smith, 1840
You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you’re doing is
work or play.
—Warren Beatty, 2004
Play by the rules, but be ferocious.
—Bill Bowerman
22
17
Included, without a date, into all recent collections of his works.
18
As quoted, without a date, in several reliable sources, starting not later than 1945.
19
Not very surprisingly, the reversed version of this proverb is even more popular.
20
This may be just a popular paraphrase of a longer line by Heinrich Bullinger.
21
From his Notebook E (1775-1776).
22
Frequently misattributed to Phil Knight, who just quoted (with a reverent reference) Bowerman,
his own athletic coach and business partner.
20
On Work and Leisure