Henry Royce Quotes

I love recreating, and I love elevating - anything I do I want do ten times better every time.

Everything is perfect and there is always room for improvement.

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

Few ideas work on the first try. Iteration is key to innovation.

Different' and 'new' is relatively easy. Doing something that's genuinely better is very hard.

The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.

The only thing Steve Jobs has ever asked me in all the years we've been together and have been partners, the only thing he has ever asked me is: 'Make it great.'

Whatever I do, I always want to get better.

I have a view that if you build something that's good, and you keep making it better, it lasts.

There's always stuff you can improve on. Even when you do something right you can always try to go out and do something better and improve.

Every time we record, and every time we go out live, we try and beat what we've already done.

The hardest thing in the world to do is to take something everyone already knows and make it a little better.

Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.

It's very easy to make something that is new. So we are trying to make things that are better.

To become successful and outstanding at something, we don't have to come up with something new; we need only find ways of doing it better.

The good is the enemy of the best.

Everything can be improved.

You create a blueprint of your best performance, and you're happiest the night you surpass that blueprint. That won't happen that often, but it will happen. It's like sculpting: you keep refining. When you have a piece that is yours, that is just you, that becomes obsessive; you think about it all the time.

Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.

If it were better, it wouldn't be as good.

There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.

This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

Luxury, not necessity, is the mother of invention. Every artifact is somewhat wanting in its function, and that is what drives its evolution.

You can always improve on something, the technology is different today, but I would leave it well alone. If there was something that was incomplete, that might be interesting... because I do that on my website.

The condition of all development is not to be content with the present, but to have the courage to ask how everything can be made better and the good fortune to find a right answer to this question in thought or in action.