It was not enough that anything should be done: it was not done at all if it was not done well.

I came to America to be taught exactly the opposite.

The two infernal Americanisms "That's good enough" and "That will do" were early taught me, together with the maxim of quantity rather than quality.
It was not the boy at school who could write the words in his copy-book best who received the praise of the teacher; it was the boy who could write the largest number of words in a given time.

The acid test in arithmetic was not the mastery of the method, but the number of minutes required to work out an example.

If a boy abbreviated the month January to "Jan." and the word Company to "Co." he received a hundred per cent mark, as did the boy who spelled out the words and who could not make the teacher see that "Co." did not spell "Company." As I grew into young manhood, and went into business, I found on every hand that quantity counted for more than quality.