Henry Blodget Quotes

When you have had a taste of excellence, you cannot go back to mediocrity.

Everything about mediocrity kills me.

Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.

Mediocrity is not worth the trip.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

Being number two sucks.

I'm not a big fan of mediocre.

Someone once described the information business as exactly the opposite of sex. When it's good, it's still lousy.

Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible.

Our best work can't possibly appeal to the average masses, only our average work can. Finding the humility to happily walk away from those that don't get it unlocks our ability to do great work.

Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.

Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That's not my style.

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

A brand new mediocrity is thought more of than accustomed excellence.

Only mediocre people are at the best all the time.

Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence.

Half talent is no talent.

I'm not impressed by your performance.

Style is doing things not in any way but in the best way.

The good is the enemy of the best.

In art, 'good enough' is not good enough.

Good is good, but better carrieth it.

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

Do a few things at mastery versus many things at mediocrity.

But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.