Quotes About Quality

almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted time wasted on something not worth wasting it on

You would be better off having nobody than the wrong somebody. (On marrying for the wrong reasons.)

I think a lot of our bad habits are simply the result of being in too big a hurry to do a thing right to start with.

The quality of our life is greatly affected by the time we spend with God, and it should have a place of priority in our schedule.

Every week, Michael went to Dean and DeLuca to buy your pears. She shook her head, remembering. He waas going to school, and he had no money, so he stretched every penny like this - She made a motion as if she were pulling on rubber band. But he wanted you to have the best pears. For you, only the best would do.

Raw ingredients trump recipes every time; farmers and ranchers who coax the best from the earth can make any of us appear to be a great cook.

the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

We go forth all to seek America. And in the seeking we create her. In the quality of our search shall be the nature of the America that we created.

The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.

So that's our approach. Very simple, and we're really shooting for Museum of Modern Art quality. The way we're running the company, the product design, the advertising, it all comes down to this: Let's make it simple. Really simple." Apple's design mantra would remain the one featured on its first brochure: "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

We have come to have no idea of profit other than financial profit. The delusion is that cheapness leads to plenty. But what use is plenty of rubbish?

Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money - it's always been like that.

the quality of the sounds, and how capable the blend of those sounds was of exciting emotions hidden in the hearts of the audience.

Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.

Price is what you pay and value is what you get.

Only buy something that you would be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for ten years.

When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.

I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for ten years.

Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price, than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie.