Stewart Butterfield Quotes

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

I just want to continue to produce good work. I don't want to do junk.

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

Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Through working with amazing people, the bar is always raised to do your own best work. I want to be a part of unique stories that are smart, heartfelt, funny and sad, and have a general sense of good quality.

Of human work none but what is bad can be perfect in its own bad way.

If you're gonna do a job, do it properly.

I just know that if your work is good, good work follow.

I always want to do good work and enjoy doing it.

Good is not good, where better is expected

Don't settle for mediocrity; never let good enough be good enough.

Don't try to be original; just try to be good.

Excellence isn't about meeting the spec, it's about setting the spec.

Life is too short to waste.

If you're going to do good work, the work has to scare you.

Life is too short for non-WOW projects.

In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well

Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great.

Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence.

Be great at what you do, and don't ever settle for mediocrity or else you will always wonder how great you could have been.

We must always go for the best. Do not compromise on quality. Reject if it is not the best - not only the best in India, but globally.

One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.

Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.