Donella Meadows Quotes

Everything is perfect and there is always room for improvement.

Good is not good, where better is expected

If it were better, it wouldn't be as good.

The best is the enemy of the good.

Good is not good when better is expected.

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

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Good enough never is.

We always want more, more, more. You see good work; you want it better. We push, push, push.

I don't know if I'll ever be as good as I was when I started Kogi, but I strive for that.

Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.

Perfection is the often the enemy of greatness.

People always try to be perfect. That's why they don't start anything. Perfection is the lowest standard in the world. Because if you're trying to be perfect, you know you can't be. So what you really have is a standard you can never achieve. You want to be outstanding, not perfect.

Our best today; better tomorrow.

The good is the enemy of the best.

Believe in better is one of the most powerful words you can use in the business community.

It's always about wanting to one-up myself from the day before. There's never an absolute 100% perfect performance, but going out and striving for that perfect performance is what keeps me going.

Perfection is often the enemy of greatness.

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

On a scale of one to 10, I feel I'm at a nine because there's definitely room for improvement. I know I could go further.

I always tried to do the best. I knew I couldn't always be the best, but I tried to be.

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

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

I think every time you go to do something, it's a challenge. Somebody said to me, 'You've done it all. If you could do anything right now, what would you do?' I said, 'I'd do everything I did better.'

Better is the enemy of good.