Do Things Carefully

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Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, penned those words to his son in 1774.

We all know, of course, that with a few rare exceptions you never start that way. You start by doing things poorly and progress toward doing them well. At whatever stage of the journey, the important thing is to maximize quality. For…