Quality Quotes

QUALITY QUOTES

quotations about quality

Quality quote

The world has changed from quality to quantity, and so have we.

SANTOSH KALWAR

Quote Me Everyday

You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

The Western Lands

California is about the good life. So a bad life there seems so much worse than a bad life anywhere else. Quality is an obsession there–good food, good wine, good movies, music, weather, cars. Those sound like the right things to shoot for, but the never-ending quality quest is a lot of pressure when you’re uncertain and disorganized and, not least, broker than broke.

SARAH VOWELL

The Partly Cloudy Patriot

Most people buy the highest quality television sets, only to watch the lowest quality television shows.

JAROD KINTZ

At Even One Penny, This Book Would Be Overpriced

Don’t judge the quality of the gasoline by the filling station attendant.

ANONYMOUS

Quality without virtue is elevated filth.

FRANCOIS XAVIER JOSEPH DROZ

attributed, Day’s Collacon

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

attributed, Igniting the Spirit at Work: Daily Reflections

The quality of each man’s life is the full measure of that man’s personal commitment to excellence and to victory.

VINCE LOMBARDI

attributed, The Coaches’ Chalkboard

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

RAMSEY CLARK

International Herald Tribune, June 18, 1991

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

HENRY FORD

attributed, Hearts Touched With Fire

Quality is to give the customers what they want.

SAM WALTON

attributed, Total Quality Management: Text, Cases, and Readings, Third Edition

Uncontrolled variation is the enemy of quality.

EDWARD DEMING

attributed, Basic Statistical Tools for Improving Quality

Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

ANTHONY ROBBINS

attributed, 101 Best Ways to Get Ahead

It is right to love all the virtuous and noble qualities that can belong to us, but it is wrong to believe them good simply because they are our own.

ELIAS LYMAN MAGOON

Proverbs for the People

Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality; when you worked for a fool you simply gave him eyewash.

ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Quality, relevant content can’t be spotted by an algorithm. You can’t subscribe to it. You need people — actual human beings — to create or curate it.

KRISTINA HALVORSON

Content Strategy for the Web

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

ANONYMOUS

Our good qualities often expose us to hatred and persecutions.

H. H. WILSON

attributed, Day’s Collacon

Quality is generally transparent when present, but easily recognized in its absence.

ALAN GILLIES

Software Quality: Theory and Management

Quality tends to fan out like waves.

ROBERT M. PIRSIG

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance