Quotes about quality

Everything can be improved.

— C. W. Barron

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

— John J. Bernet

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

— Josh Billings

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

— Henry Block

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

— Steve Brown

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.

— C. G. Campbell

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.

— Thomas Carlyle

The bitterness of poor quality remains long after low pricing is forgotten!

— Leon M. Cautillo

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

— Bill Cosby

Quality is everyone's responsibility.

— W. Edwards Deming

The job can't be finished only improved to please the customer.

— W. Edwards Deming

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

— Wyatt Earp

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Finagle

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.

— Henry Ford

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

— Henry Ford

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.

— William A. Foster

The best is the cheapest.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

— Benjamin Haydon

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

— Geoffrey Hickson

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal

Permit no hour to go by without it due improvement.

— Thomas Kempis

By the work one knows the workmen.

— Jean De La Fontaine

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

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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.

— H. L. Mencken

The best ad is a good product.

— Alan H. Meyer

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

— Bob Moawad

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

— Ovid

Quicker by taking more time.

— Proverb

Pay beforehand if you would have your work poorly done.

— Proverb

Could everything be done twice it would be done better.

— Proverb

What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.

— John Ruskin

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

— John Ruskin

Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten.

— Gucci Family Slogan

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.

— John Spoelhof

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

— Theodore Sturgeon

Quality will be prized as a precious possession.

— Source Unknown

When you're out of quality you're out of business.

— Source Unknown

Produce great pumpkins, the pies will follow later.

— Source Unknown

If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over.

— Source Unknown

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.

— Martin Van Buren

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

— Theodore White