Peter Sellers Quotes

There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work.

If you can't do it and do it well, you can't do it, period.

I won't do anything unless it's the absolute best.

Everything about mediocrity kills me.

We strivin' for perfection.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

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

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

To me, the only sin is mediocrity.

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.

I'm a perfectionist. I want everything done right. When it's not done right, I'm not happy.

I never compromise with my work.

Good is not good, where better is expected

Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.

You’ll never achieve 100 percent if 99 percent is okay.

I am incapable of mediocrity.

I find mediocrity hard. I find that whole area difficult. I'm a very passionate person; I care very much about what I do. I believe I give it a lot, so it's gotta be good; otherwise, what's the point?

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.

I am never sure that anything's good enough. Something that is good today will not be good tomorrow.

No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living.

Good is not good when better is expected.

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

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.