There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

-Beecham, SirThomas
Quoted in Harold  Atkins and  Archie Newman Beecham Stories (1978).

A test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.

-Bennett, (Enoch) Arnold
Things That Have Interested Me,'Finishing Books'.

   I have got the North Pole out of my system after twenty- three years of effort, hard work, disappointments, hardships, privations, more or less suffering, and some risks† The work is the finish, the cap and climax of nearly four hundred years of effort, loss of life, and expenditure of fortunes by the civilized nations of the world, and it has been accomplished in a way that is thoroughly American. I am content.

-Peary, Robert Edwin
  Diary entry, Apr. Quoted inTheNorth Pole (published1910).