Alfred Bertram Guthrie
Author
"Good enough is never good enough."
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Warren Buffett
Investor, Businessman
"If the reason for doing something is that everyone else is doing it, it's not a good enough reason."
LeBron James
Professional Basketball Player
"Some times your best effort just isn't good enough."
Meg Whitman
Business Executive
"'Perfect' is the enemy of 'good enough'."
Che Guevara
Revolutionary, Guerrilla Leader
"If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot."
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"Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time."
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"Never be comfortable.... .with just good enough."
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"In art, the best is good enough."
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"I’m trying to do better than good enough."
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"I left my fingerprints somewhere - that's good enough. I am my own person - that's good enough. I stand my ground - that's good enough."
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"My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it."
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"I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough."
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"Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough"
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"I went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough."
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"Just to be remembered is good enough for me. Lots of people are forgotten."
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"Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us."
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"The catfish is Plenty good enough fish for anyone"
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"I'm not the fastest writer. I can't just crank out ideas that are good enough."
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"I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices."
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"I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish."
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"In art, 'good enough' is not good enough."
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"Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane."
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"Actually it seems to me that one can hardly say anything either bad enough or good enough about life."
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"For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough."
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"I don't do all of this as an indulgence. I do it because I'm not a good enough actor to not do it."
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