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Wednesday, 3 December 2008
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests" (Vidal, Gore - Language)

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All that glitters is not gold.
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Browse Quotations about Quality

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.
By the work one knows the workmen.
Could everything be done twice it would be done better.
Everything can be improved.
Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.
If it's good they'll stop making it.
If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over.
If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.
If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.
If you want work well done, select a busy man; the other kind has no time.
It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor workman.
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
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.
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.
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
Pay beforehand if you would have your work poorly done.
Permit no hour to go by without it due improvement.
Produce great pumpkins, the pies will follow later.
Quality begins on the inside... and then works its way out.
Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
Quality is everyone's responsibility.
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.
Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten.
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.
Quality will be prized as a precious possession.
Quicker by taking more time.
The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
The best ad is a good product.
The best is the cheapest.
The bitterness of poor quality remains long after low pricing is forgotten!
The job can't be finished only improved to please the customer.
There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.
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.
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.
We are never so ridiculous by the qualities we have, as by those we affect to have.
What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose.
When you're out of quality you're out of business.
Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

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