“Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble.”

— Henry Royce

As quoted in A Dictionary of Marketing (2011) by Charles Doyle, p. 391
Context: Small things make perfection, but perfection is no small thing … Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble.

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English engineer, car designer, co-founder of Rolls-Royce 1863–1933

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