Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. Aristotle.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached. Samuel Johnson
I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It’s the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy. Lee Iacocca
Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it. Cardinal Newman
Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it. Salvador Dali
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. Matthew Arnold
The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement. George F Will
Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances. Matthew Arnold