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October 26, 2022

Perfection is not…

October 26, 2022/ Gary Bandy

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." -- Antoine de Saint Exupéry

This is one of my favourite quotations.

I’m applying it to writing finance reports but it can be applied to anything. One of the things I like about the design of Apple hardware is the adherence to this principle.

I keep a notebook of quotations and if you have any good ones relevant to writing and/or finance please add them, with attribution, to the comments.