Quotes about quality

"Everything can be improved."

Barron, C. W. on quality
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"Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor workman."

Bernet, John J. on quality   

"One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can."

Billings, Josh on quality   

"If it's good they'll stop making it."

Block, Henry on quality   

"When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on quality   

"Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well."

Brown, Steve on quality   

"Quality isn't something that can be argued into an article or promised into it. It must be put there. If it isn't put there, the finest sales talk in the world won't act as a substitute."

Campbell, C. G. on quality   

"No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment."

Carlyle, Thomas on quality
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"The bitterness of poor quality remains long after low pricing is forgotten!"

Cautillo, Leon M. on quality   

"There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right."

Cosby, Bill on quality   

"Quality is everyone's responsibility."

Deming, W. Edwards on quality
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"The job can't be finished only improved to please the customer."

Deming, W. Edwards on quality   

"Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything."

Earp, Wyatt on quality   

"The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on quality   

"Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse."

Finagle on quality   

"There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible."

Ford, Henry on quality   

"If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere."

Ford, Henry on quality   

"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives."

Foster, William A. on quality   

"The best is the cheapest."

Franklin, Benjamin on quality   

"It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity."

Gandhi, Mahatma on quality
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"When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for."

Haydon, Benjamin on quality   

"If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward."

Hickson, Geoffrey on quality   

"If you want work well done, select a busy man; the other kind has no time."

Hubbard, Elbert on quality   

"Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on quality   

"Permit no hour to go by without it due improvement."

Kempis, Thomas on quality   

"By the work one knows the workmen."

La Fontaine, Jean De on quality   

"We are never so ridiculous by the qualities we have, as by those we affect to have."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on quality   

"Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguard bad work."

Mencken, H. L. on quality   

"The best ad is a good product."

Meyer, Alan H. on quality   

"Quality begins on the inside... and then works its way out."

Moawad, Bob on quality   

"Make the workmanship surpass the materials."

Ovid on quality   

"Quicker by taking more time."

Proverb on quality   

"Pay beforehand if you would have your work poorly done."

Proverb on quality   

"Could everything be done twice it would be done better."

Proverb on quality
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"What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end."

Ruskin, John on quality
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"Whether for life or death, do your own work well."

Ruskin, John on quality   

"Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten."

Slogan, Gucci Family on quality
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"Not too long ago, if you did 75 percent of the things you did right, it was okay. Now, if you don't do 98 percent of those things right, some competitor will eat you for lunch."

Spoelhof, John on quality   

"Ninety percent of everything is crap."

Sturgeon, Theodore on quality   

"Quality will be prized as a precious possession."

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