Greg Behrendt Quotes

Good is not good, where better is expected

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

Good enough never is.

Don't settle for mediocrity; never let good enough be good enough.

There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high enough. You want to surpass it.

The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.

The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.

To me, the only sin is mediocrity.

Don't ever let good enough be good enough.

The good is the enemy of the best.

'Good enough' stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?

I only scream and scratch when something's only 'really good' or 'good', I want to be great, or let's go home.

Good is the enemy of great.

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

The best is the enemy of the good.

Good is not good when better is expected.

We strivin' for perfection.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

You don't set off in life to be mediocre. At least, I don't.

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.

Demand excellence.

When you have had a taste of excellence, you cannot go back to mediocrity.

I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity.

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

Excellence is the accumulation of hundreds of minute decisions; it is execution at the most granular level. Once you accept the idea that you should give in to things that make no sense because other people do those things and you want to appear reasonable, you are on a path towards mediocrity.