Bryan Volpenhein Quotes

You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.

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

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

Whatever I'm doing, I try and keep the quality very high.

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

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

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.

I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel.

I'm a perfectionist to a default. I will drive you crazy sometimes. When I'm recording, I will try something a trillion times to get it right.

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

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

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

The best do sweat the small stuff. They get the seemingly insignificant details right. They have the discipline to shine at the baby things which they get gives birth to spectacular giant things.

I have always believed in quality work.

A perfectionist? That's part of my job.

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?

I have an obsession for quality.

I don't put nothing out if it's not ready.

I always try and be perfect in practice.

I'm a big perfectionist, and I like to make sure everything 120 percent, from the production to the vocal performance to the lyrics, the melody and everything.

I hate crap, I like craftsmanship

The key to success is to learn to do something right and then do it right every time.

When I was a carpenter, I once worked with this Russian lady architect. I would tell her, ‘Look, I’m terribly sorry, but I want to change that a half inch,’ and she would say, ‘No limit for better.’ I think that is a worthy credo. You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow.

For it is fixed principle with me, that whatever is done should be done well.

I want everything to be perfect, if I'm going to do it.