Douglas William Jerrold Quotes

Beauty is less important than quality.

It is better to be compared with a very good coach than the other way.

Excellence is the name of the game.

Excellence resides in quality, not in quantity. The best is always few and rare; much lowers value.

Focus on just a few things, and do them better than anybody else.

Strive for excellence in few things, rather than good performance in many.

It doesn't matter so much where the material comes from, as long as it's good.

You can only do so many things great, and you should cast aside everything else.

Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity.

It is not by his faults, but by his excellences, that we measure a great man.

Our philosophy is always to search for the best quality. That is something our father taught us. It's one way to be different from your competitors. You can try to be cheaper, or you can try to be better.

Unfortunately, results are the only thing that some people look at, but there is more to defining success than just stats.

Results are a consequence of doing things well and having high standards, improving the detail of how we play.

I like quality over quantity.

Something needn't be large to be good.

Better to have a single perfect diamond than a sack of flawed stones.

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.

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well.

It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a poor one; so I would have no work of art, no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best.

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre

I focus on things that are the highest value and do them perfectly.

Make no compromise in quality.