Quotes About Thoroughness

Leave no stone unturned.

If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.

If I set off to do something, why not do it properly? Otherwise, what's the point?

It is worse than useless to do things halfway, Bee. For then you think the work is done, but someone must come behind you later to do it all over again. Even if you must work much harder and get less done, it is better to do the whole task the first time.

If you weed, you must do it well. Take it all out, down to the deepest root. Otherwise, it will just come back. It will be stronger than ever, and you will have that work to do over again. Or someone else must take on your unfinished task.

He valued money too highly to dispense it lightly and wanted to investigate all requests before acting upon them.

We made sure that we were right and had planned for every contingency before we went ahead.

Success is the sum of details.

Everything is important- that success is in the details.

Details create success.

une chose qui doit être bien faite ne doit point se faire à la hâte.

To find what you seek in the road of life,the best proverb of all is that wich says: "Leave no stone unturned.

If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.

I believe in focusing on details.

If I can't do things to the fullest, I don't want to do it.

something you all got to start thinking about, I will check up on everything I ask you to do and I'll keep on checking until I'm satisfied.

You almost always get better results if you slow the process down and spend some time going through the steps

There's only one way to assure consistently good work. That is consistently thorough preparation.

she had conducted meticulous daily inspections since the time she could crawl.

But he is so exceedingly accurate, that, if he only fancies he has said a word too precipitate, or too general, or only half true, he never ceases to qualify, to modify, and extenuate, till at last he appears to have said nothing at all.

there are people who try to look as if they are doing a good and thorough job, and then there are the people who actually damn well do it, for its own sake.

Behind every text footnote is a file folder with all the hardcopy documentation needed to document every sentence in this book at a moment's notice. Moreover, I assembled a team of hair-splitting, nitpicking, adversarial researchers and archivists to review each and every sentence, collectively ensuring that each fact and fragment of a fact was backed up with the necessary black and white documents.

Someone said once, "If you want to fill a dozen milk bottles, you must not stand back and spray them with a hose. You can get them wet, but you won't fill them. You must take them one by one.

Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.