Ozwald Boateng Quotes

I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.

If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.

It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability.

I'm a bit of a perfectionist, and I want to give 100 percent to everything.

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

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

If I'm going to do something, I'll do it properly or not at all.

I never compromise with my work.

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

And here is the lesson I learned in the army. If you want to do a thing badly, you have to work at it as though you want to do it well.

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

I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.

Our father taught us such a work ethic that if there's something worth doing, it's worth doing well.

I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.

So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.

I'm a perfectionist. I won't do a thing without trying to do it well.

Quality is everything to me, and I perfect everything I do.

You have to be a professional in every single thing you do.

I have always believed in quality work.

If you don't have that ambition you start to be sloppy and that is not what I like to be.

If doing something with second-rate effort satisfies you, find something else to do - where only your best effort will satisfy you personally.

I'm a true professional. I don't play no acting games, and I take pride in my work and being a professional.

You have to take a certain pride in your work.

That's just how I live my life. That's how I was raised: to demand excellence out of myself.

I work really hard. I'm a perfectionist.