Mark McCormack Quotes

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.

Whatever I'm doing, I try and keep the quality very high.

People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.

I wanted nothing else than to make the object as perfect as possible.

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

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

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.

I just think if you're going to do something, do it properly.

I'm a perfectionist. I won't do a thing without trying to do it well.

I'm always in search for perfection. If it's not perfect, I'm back to the drawing board.

Quality is everything to me, and I perfect everything I do.

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

I've always gone for a kind of perfection.

You have to be a professional in every single thing you do.

I have always believed in quality work.

I have an obsession for quality.

I always try and be perfect in practice.

Whatever you do big or small, do it well or don't do it at all.

When I was a carpenter, I once worked with this Russian lady architect. I would tell her, ‘Look, I’m terribly sorry, but I want to change that a half inch,’ and she would say, ‘No limit for better.’ I think that is a worthy credo. You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow.

It is not enough to get things done; they must be done right.

Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.

I want everything to be perfect, if I'm going to do it.

Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.

Perfection is very difficult to achieve, and perfection was what I wanted in McDonald's. Everything else was secondary for me.