Og Mandino Quotes

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.

I take pride in everything I do.

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.

There is no job a man can do that is undignified - if he does it well.

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.

You go out and work hard and leave everything on the field. I think if you do that, you don't have any regrets. You can go home and look at yourself in the mirror.

If you're not going to do it to the best of your ability, then don't do it at all.

If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.

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

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

Doing something the right way is something I take pride in.

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 just think if you're going to do something, do it properly.

Someone will say, 'Well, that's good enough.' As soon as I hear 'Good enough,' it really bothers me. I spend as much time as I think I can on anything I do. I try to do that with the people that work with me. I try to get the best out of them.

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

Be not a shoemaker nor yet a shaft maker save for thyself alone: let the shoe be misshapen, or crooked the shaft, and a curse on thy head will be called.

Whatever I do, I have to put 100 percent of my focus into it because I don't like to do a bad job.

I used to take a lot of pride into what went into practice.

When you do something, do it right the first time... When you're talking about hard-working, when you go out of your way to mop floors and strip them and do all those things, it's kind of like, 'Dang.'

My philosophy has always been to do the job I do to the very best of my ability and to be myself within it.

I work really hard and I take great pride in what I do.

Try to do 100 percent, do my job, and that's all.

If I set off to do something, why not do it properly? Otherwise, what's the point?

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

I would rather spend my entire life doing nothing than have my name attached to something mediocre.