Quotes About Quality

Is a programmer who gets 99% of assignments done on time and 95% error free better than one who gets only 92% done on time but with a 99% error-free rate? Is total product quality higher if the defect rate is 15% lower but customer returns are 10% higher? Is "strategic alignment" higher if the profit went up by 10% but the "total quality index" went down by 5%?

In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.

Fresh corn tastes better than canned corn, and who knew? So if you want to pay extra for that, great. Be our guest. But quit acting like it is a 'conscience and responsibility' thing, because canned corn is nutritionally better than no corn.(p. 91).

Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive.

No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.

It sounds as if we're assessing the quality of a work of art in terms of its attributes, but in fact we're doing the opposite—deciding first which painting is the best, and only then inferring from its attributes the metrics of quality.

The Halo Effect, in other words, turns conventional wisdom about performance on its head. Rather than the evaluation of the outcome being determined by the quality of the process that led to it, it is the observed nature of the outcome that determines how we evaluate the process.6

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.

I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.

Environmental pollution is a blight on people's quality of life and a trouble that weighs on their hearts.

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

The whole trend and quality of anyone's life is determined in the long run by the choices that are made.

It matters not how long you live, but how well.

We need to have a taste factor in our life. It isn't about what's popular; it's about what's really good.

A second-class mind dealing with third-class material is hardly a necessity of life.

Spend unbroken chunks of time with the most important people in your life.

Out of the ­10,000 news stories you may have read in the last 12 months, did even one allow you to make a better decision about a serious matter in your life?

I believe one of the most important priorities is to do whatever we do as well as we can.

Activity is not achievement. It is not enough to rush about beginning a lot of things and keeping busy. A well-spent life is one that rounds out what it has begun.

Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life.

My worthiness is all my doubt His Merit- all my fear- Contrasting which my quality Does however appear

The quality of a person's life does not depend on the circumstances of his life as much as the attitude with which he faces those circumstances.

Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.