Mediocre Quotations | Page 3

To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.

If we weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocre company.

Mediocre people are the most dangerous people in the world.

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

Violent attacks on poets by mediocre pundits are howling protest at vibrant trembling, genius that disturbed their slumber.

Brilliant spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go farther than a great idea that inspires no one.

Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

To be popular I must be mediocre.

There is only good art and mediocre art.

The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.

Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre

Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life.

All too often, the security of a mediocre present is more comfortable than the adventure of trying to be more in the future.

Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

Our goal is to find an outstanding business at a sensible price, not a mediocre business at a bargain price.