”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.”
-Willa A. Foster
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not act but a habit.”
-Aristotle
”Of all our human resources, the most precious is the desire to improve.”
-Anonymous
No quality assurance program, whether it be voluntary or imposed can correct frequent mistakes and unreliable performance introduced by insufficient training, inadequate laboratory environment, and poor administrative practices.
– William Horwitz
One trouble with Americans is that we’re fixers rather than preventers.”
- James Harold Doolittle
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
- Peter F. Drucker
If you’re doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.”
- Charles F. Kettering
Never confuse motion with action”
- Ernest Hemingway
”Do not tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.”
- James J. Ling
There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.”
- Benjamin Disraeli
You seldom improve quality by cutting costs, but you can often cut costs by improving quality.”
- Karl Albrecht
”…every successful quality revolution has included the participation of upper management. We know of no exceptions.”
- Joseph Juran
C. W. Barron: Quality Quotes
Everything can be improved.
Martin Van Buren: Quality Quotes
It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn’t.
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
-Will Rogers
