George Voinovich Quotes

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

The best is the enemy of the good.

Better is the enemy of good.

Practice quality, and you get better at quality. But quality takes time, so by working solely on quality, you end up losing something else that's important - speed.

Sometimes good enough is good enough.

We must strike a balance between speed and thoroughness, between the need for time frames and the avoidance of mistakes which will later cost us dearly.

Yes, it's important to make things great, and you can certainly do this by upgrading over time, but good and profitable is better than perfect and never done.

The enemy of the "best" is often the "good."

But as someone pointed out earlier, it is not really about fairness; it is about taking finite resources and applying them where they will have the most effect.

Good enough never is.

Because every design must satisfy competing objectives, there necessarily has to be compromise among, if not the complete exclusion of, some of those objectives, in order to meet what are considered the more important of them.

One must strike the right balance between speed and quality.

I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.

True economy means the wisest expenditure of what we have, everything considered, looking at it from the broadest standpoint. It is not a good thing to save a nickel at the expenditure of twenty-five cents' worth of time.

There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.

Sometimes you have to give up one good in order to get another good.

The best is the enemy of the good enough.

Cost effectiveness and effectiveness are not always the same thing in government.

It would be nice to say I won seven world titles, yet I want a good life as well while I play.

Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time.

The good is the enemy of the best.

The good is always the enemy of the best.

If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it's simply a poor use of resources.

I don't know what exactly the translation is but when we do consume something now, something else has to give at some point.

A good executive is one who makes people contentedly settle for less than they meant to get, in return for more than they meant to give.