Raymond Loewy Quotes

I don't like to get comfortable. I don't like to be like, 'Oh, my song is all over the place. I'm lit.' Nah, it makes me wanna keep working.

Satisfaction with results will be the [death] knell of progress. No man is good who thinks that he cannot be better. He has no holiness who thinks that he is holy enough.

Don't ever let good enough be good enough.

I fully realize that the new organization is a human rather than a perfect instrumentality for the attainment of its great objective. As time goes on it will, I am sure, be improved.

There is always room for improvement even if you're getting 110 averages.

I don't want to be complacent.

No person should become complacent by his/her work and think that he/she has done their best.

The philosophy at Valve and Gearbox is that if things can't be done better, they shouldn't be done at all.

You should always want more. If you get comfortable with what you have done, you can never go to that next level.

There's always things to improve, you can't be satisfied with what you have.

You can never rest on what you did yesterday; it's old.

I can't stand satisfaction. To me, greatness comes from that quest for perfection.

Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.

You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night.

People are satisfied with making minor upgrades and tweaking things here and there - as long as that's the landscape, it will keep on happening. I don't see a problem necessarily, but at the same time it is nice to see new things come.

Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history. ... Probably the strongest motivating force is the simplest: the inability of almost everyone to ever leave well enough alone.

If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, Behold it was very good.

I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along.

I'm never satisfied. I can always find things that I can do better and go further on, so I force myself to accept when someone says, "We have it, it's good and we can move on."

I'm always tweaking, always trying to make it better, constantly moving the levers and dials.

How do we appreciate the good without letting it be the enemy of the perfect? How do we keep a step in the right direction from becoming a stopping point? How do we get beyond shades of insipid light green?

The good is the enemy of the best.

Never be comfortable.... .with just good enough.

Even things that aren't broken can be fixed.

People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.