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“The celebrated Adam Smith was the first to point out the immense increase of production, and the superior perfection of products referable to this division of labour.”

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Book:A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth

Source: A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth

“Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will thankfully content ourselves with any not intolerable approximation thereto! Let no man, as Schiller says, too querulously "measure by a scale of perfection the meager product of reality" in this poor world of ours.”

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Book:On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History

Source: On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History

“Perfection seems sterile; It is final, no mystery in it; It's a product of an assembly line.”

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Author:Dejan Stojanovic

“Strive for perfection - never be content with mediocrity. You don't win until you conquer the little flaws. You don't beat these great ones until your form is perfect. This is true in all of life. A flaw in a product can ruin a business. A personal failing, a little one, can ruin a person's life. Don't be content with mediocrity - strive to live up to the greatest within you.”

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Author:Bob Richards

“Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.”

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Author:Jerry Moran

“Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.”

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Author:Friedrich Schiller

“Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products”

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Author:Niklaus Wirth