Orison Swett Marden Quotes

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

I am incapable of mediocrity.

Whatever you do, do it so well that people looking on will feel that the task was reserved especially for you by God Himself.

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

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.

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

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.

To me, the only sin is mediocrity.

I want to be able to separate the average from the good and from the great. I want to separate the ordinary from the extraordinary.

I hate crap, I like craftsmanship

Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.

Never settle for average.

The good is the enemy of the best.

There is a big difference between being good and being great.

Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

The good is always the enemy of the best.

Nothing is more expensive than mediocrity.

To be great at whatever it is that you do, it's going to take some discipline to separate yourself from the average.

Good is good, but better carrieth it.

I'm not a perfectionist, but I like to feel that things are done well

Do a few things at mastery versus many things at mediocrity.

If You're going to sweep the floor, sweep it better than anybody in town. And if You're going to play the guitar, really, really, really get in it, and don't be jivin'.

Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible.

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well.