Quality Control Quotes

• The ideas of control and improvements are often confused with one another. This is because quality control and quality improvement are inseparable.

  Kaoru Ishikawa

  Confused, Ideas, Quality

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• Quality control starts and ends with training.

  Kaoru Ishikawa

  Training, Quality, Ends

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• Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

  Henry Ford

  Motivational, Success, Business

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• There are certain things I will automate, but when it comes to quality control, I want to keep a very close eye.

  Tim Ferriss

  Eye, Quality, Want

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• It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Excellence, Quality

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius". Book by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, transl. Richard Mott Gummere, Letter XLV: On sophistical argumentation, line 1, 1920.

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  Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.72, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Motivational, Quality

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• Quality control is applicable to any kind of enterprise. In fact, it must be applied in every enterprise.

  Kaoru Ishikawa

  Quality, Facts, Kind

  Kaoru Ishikawa (1990). “Introduction to Quality Control”, Productivity Press

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• If God created everything, he's got a serious quality control problem.

  George Carlin

  Quality, Serious, Problem

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• I believe that quality level is determined primarily by the actual design of the product itself, not by quality control in the production process.

  Maya Angelou

  Believe, Design, Quality

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  I don't think all of my ideas are good. It's almost easier when people are critical of you because it helps with the quality control.

  Seth Rogen

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Quality control which cannot show results is not quality control. Let us engage in QC which makes so much money for the company that we do not know what to do with it.

  Kaoru Ishikawa

  Quality, Results, Shows

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• As with many other things, there is a surprising amount of prejudice against quality control, but the proof of the pudding is still in the eating.

  Kaoru Ishikawa

  Quality, Prejudice, Pudding

  Kaoru Ishikawa (1990). “Introduction to Quality Control”, Productivity Press

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• First, many in Wall Street - a community in which quality control is not prized - will sell investors anything they will buy.

  Warren Buffett

  Wall, Community, Quality

  Warren Buffett's annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway's shareholders, www.berkshirehathaway.com. February 28, 2001.

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• I am involved in every step of the process [musicmaking]. Whether it is the production or the mixing or the visuals and music videos. I'm involved in every step of the way as far as the creative, directing and merchandise . Just making sure everything that falls in line with my brand is portrayed a certain type of way. It all about quality control and attention to detail, and making sure anything you put your name on is on point.

  G-Eazy

  Fall, Names, Creative

  Source: thesource.com

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• The "patron saint" of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.

  Akio Morita

  Country, Impact, Ideas

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 165), 1986.

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• Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training

  Charles Handy

  Teacher, Home, School

  Charles B. Handy (2003). “The Elephant and the Flea: Reflections of a Reluctant Capitalist”, p.26, Harvard Business Press

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• No marshmallows. "I don't believe this! I'm going to write the president of General Mills! Don't they have any quality control?" "I'm sure it's just a fluke" "Doesn't make any difference whether it's a fluke or not. It shouldn't have happened. When a person buys a box of lucky charms he's got expectations

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Believe, Writing, Lucky Charms

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• The data set of proxies of past climate used in Mann...for the estimation of temperature from 1400 to 1980 contains collation errors, unjustifiable truncation or extrapolation of source data, obsolete data, geographical location errors, incorrect calculation of principal components and other quality control defects.

  Steve McIntyre

  Past, Errors, Data

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• I want to have time. When you're doing a monthly book, you're like a man racing after a bus. You're breathless and red-faced. I want to build in quality control.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Book, Men, Racing

  "J. Michael Straczynski Talks Studio JMS, Joe’s Comics, EPIDEMIC, VLAD DRACULA, His Desire To Work With Neil Gaiman, and More". Interview with Bill Graham, collider.com. July 28, 2012.

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• A pin lies in wait for every bubble. And when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons: First, many in Wall Street (a community in which quality control is not prized) will sell investors anything they will buy. Second, speculation is most dangerous when it looks easiest.

  Warren Buffett

  Wall, Lying, Knowledge

  Chairman's Letter, www.berkshirehathaway.com. February 28, 2001.

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• It takes almost no capital to open a new See's candy store. We're drowning in capital of our own that has almost no cost. It would be crazy to franchise stores like some capital-starved pancake house. We like owning our own stores as a matter of quality control.

  Charlie Munger

  Crazy, House, Quality

  Charlie Munger's comments on Wesco and Berkshire Hathaway at the 2001 Wesco Financial Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 2, 2001.

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• I think if you look at the statistics and you deal with fake media - and fake media and distorted media is a continuum - the vast majority of the population says, "I don't know what to believe." There are no checks and balances in quality control.

  Ray Dalio

  Believe, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• With the media, we don't know what's true, and we don't have radical transparency because we're seeing everything through somebody else's eyes. There's no other industry that has as much power and as much freedom and as little quality control. I can't imagine how anyone could not think that's a problem.

  Ray Dalio

  Eye, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• But I do think that, when you slow the conveyor belt down, the quality control tends to go up. You have a lot more time between seasons to talk about what worked and what didn't work, and plan for the future. And the pacing of the storytelling, particularly for on-going serialized dramas, means that you don't need to do non-essential episodes, just because you have to fill this pre-existing schedule.

  Damon Lindelof

  Drama, Mean, Thinking

  "Damon Lindelof Talks THE LEFTOVERS, Looking Towards Future Seasons, Comparisons to LOST, Leaving Twitter, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 10, 2014.

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