Quotes About Quality

Persistence is the iron quality of success; if you persist long enough you must eventually succeed

I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.

Growth does not always lead a business to build on success. All too often it converts a highly successful business into a mediocre large business.

Your success will be determined by the quality of your relationships with people.

When you look at what people consider success in the music industry, it's just terrible music.

Take male strategies for success in the world. If you've got all the advantages, if you're attractive and clever and all of that, you will generally go for very high quality females.

The quality of success you will experience in your life ultimately depends upon the tiny choices you make every minute of every hour of every day.

Success is not measured by bestseller lists. Certain types of great books sell very well; other types of great books don't sell a lot. But they're both great.

Trust me, do not try to cheapen things; great affairs are badly done with small means.

Because he plainly perceives that his piquette* stands in need of being enlivened by a mixture of good wine. *A watered liquor, made from the second pressing of the grape.

comme vous me paraissez amateur; car lorsque je suis entré vous regardiez mes tableaux, je vous demande la permission de vous faire voir ma galerie : tous tableaux anciens, tous tableaux de maîtres garantis comme tels ; je n'aime pas les modernes. -Vous avez raison, monsieur, car ils ont en général un grand défaut : c'est celui de n'avoir pas encore eu le temps de devenir des anciens.

une chose qui doit être bien faite ne doit point se faire à la hâte.

Absolute excellence is rarely to be found in any legislation.

She never used a cookbook again—after all, there was no point in cooking for someone who couldn't tell the difference between a gâteau au chocolat and a defrosted Sara Lee cake.

When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is.

Pay a fortune for an LCD TV, all very well, but it doesen't improve the quality of the shite they make you watch.

ABOMINABLE, adj. The quality of another's opinions.

WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, the wrath of God, the day of wrath, etc. Amongst the ancients the wrath of kings was deemed sacred, for it could usually command the agency of some god for its fit manifestation, as could also that of a priest.

PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.

Loyalty is an admirable quality,' said Barezin. 'Admirable. But it must cut both ways.' 'Loyalty to a corrupt regime,' added Heugen, 'is foolishness . Worse. Cowardice. Worse! It's dis loyalty!

You, that judge men by the handle and the sheath, how can I make you know a good blade?' Jedediah

Do great work. Make a better product. Give better service.

Gold don't come off. What's good stays good, no matter how much of a beating it takes.

The cost of hiring someone bad is so much greater than missing out on someone good.