Quality Quotes

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  Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• Improving quality requires a culture change, not just a new diet.

  Phil Crosby

  Culture, Improving, Diets

  "Let's Talk Quality: 96 Questions You Always Wanted to Ask Phil Crosby". Book by Philip B. Crosby, 1989.

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• The biggest cost of poor quality is when your customer buys it from someone else because they didn't like yours.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Poor Quality, Cost, Like You

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• Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Educational, Loyal Customers

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• You seldom improve quality by cutting costs, but you can often cut costs by improving quality.

  Karl Albrecht

  Cutting, Cost, Improving

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• You cannot inspect quality into the product; it is already there.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Products

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• Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Knowledge, Independent, Learning

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• ...every successful quality revolution has included the participation of upper management. We know of no exceptions.

  Joseph M. Juran

  Successful, Revolution, Management

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• Your trade becomes very much impacted by the quality of your life experiences and your capacity to process them.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Life Experience, Process, Capacity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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

  Henry Ford

  Motivational, Success, Business

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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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• Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Term, Expressive, Diminish

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• We must define quality as conformance to specifications if we are to manage it.

  Phil Crosby

  Manage, Ifs, Specifications

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• Everything can be improved.

  Clarence W. Barron

  Business, Service Culture

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  There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

  Sam Walton

  Inspirational, Money, Business

  "2010 BPM and Workflow Handbook" by Layna Fischer, Future Strategies Inc., (p. 178), 2010.

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  The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

  Ray Kroc

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker (1701). “The Emperor-Marcus Antonius: his conversation with himself. together with the preliminary discourse of the learned Gataker”

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• Quality is everyone's responsibility.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Business, Responsibility

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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.

  John Joseph Bernet

  Believe, Men, Hands

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• Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.

  Phil Crosby

  Organization, Fabric, Environment

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• 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

  Business, Quality Goods, Cost

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• Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

  Wyatt Earp

  Morning, Live Life, Fine

  "Playing loose and fast with the truth" by Stephen Pritchard, www.theguardian.com. July 25, 2011.

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• Quality begins with the intent, which is fixed by management.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Management, Fixed

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• The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Success, Running, Inspiration

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