Mindy Grossman Quotes

When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.

Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

I will not do work that isn't done well or right. Stuff happens - things break, contractors don't come through - but I don't want to be responsible for not doing something correctly.

Commit yourself to quality from day one... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

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

What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.

Never cut corners, or accept anything that's second-rate.

Like many people out there, I'm inspired by the level of attention to detail, design and execution of Apple products.

Quality is pride of workmanship.

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

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

If you're going to do something, make it right and make it as good as you can. Don't waste anybody's time, especially your own.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

If you think I write stories where it is all right to just be good enough, are you kidding? You think I have a cavalier attitude on throwing stuff out? Are you kidding? I am not cavalier about what I do for a living.

I'm a fan of anything that's good, especially when it's conscientiously good.

If you're going to do a thing, do it fully so that no writing you give the world misrepresents you - so that nothing you put out there is like a sad regift you couldn't throw away and had to find a place for.

When something is well-crafted, you know it, and the enjoyment comes from experiencing it.

The best stuff is done by people who love it, whether that's high art or low art, whatever that is.

Whatever I do, whether it's cooking shows, books or events, the details count and that's what sets me apart from other food TV personalities. If you take out the details what's left?

You have to take a certain pride in your work.

My approach has always been to make things we were proud of.

Even the duster in my house has to be beautiful; no old piece of cloth will ever be used in its place.

It's not enough to do good. It must be done well.

I hate crap, I like craftsmanship