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"The enemy of good is perfect."
I always remembered that one as "perfect is the enemy of done."
Unfortunately, people have been conflating this to mean 'the enemy of good is doing anything significant at all.'
I've always treated it as "I can get a dozen jobs done well enough while you sit there pissing around trying to do one thing perfectly."
Ask any perfectionist and they'll say their work is never perfect.