Quotes About Quality

The one thing I am very strict about is that I don't like spending a lot of money on movies because the more money you spend, I think the worse that they get.

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.

Health care in America, despite all you hear, still offers us citizens one of the most efficient and highest quality systems in the world. But it's expensive, and it's only getting worse.

Tawny ports have already spent 20 or 30 years in wood - it's not likely they're going to improve. On the other hand, they're not going to get any worse.

From 20 years of experience hiring artists out of the schools, I know-they get worse every year. They're absolutely ridiculously retarded now.

Most companies are busy making their products worse, not better. Updating is almost always a disaster.

For me, work is worship, and it is not just the number of movies I make but the quality which matters most, irrespective of how they eventually fare at the box office.

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little.

Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.

Don't ever, ever devalue your product. Ever. It's the worst thing anyone can do to hurt your brand.

This is what Steve Jobs understood: Brands are defined not by the best thing on the product but by the worst thing.

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

A thing well done is worth doing.

Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having.

I won't go so far as to say that novels sell in inverse proportion to their worth, for just occasionally, someone like Dickens or George Eliot comes along to prove the opposite.

Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality.

In our case, we focus on quality, and we have a very simple model. If we show fewer ads that are more targeted, those ads are worth more. So we're in this strange situation where we show a smaller number of ads and we make more money because we show better ads. And that's the secret of Google.

I realized it's a wonderful quality to be able to spend your energy on people who are actually worth it.

I am kind of being a little selective in what I do, so it takes a little bit longer, but it's worth it in the end.

The IMAX cameras are big and heavy. And they're loud. So you have to be mindful of whether or not they're worth it; I'd say the image quality is incredible and the scale is amazing.

I own a Hangman jumper, which looks like a scarf, but that's what it's called. It cost a fortune, but it was worth it.

If I do a film, it should be worth it.

Sacrificing high quality for speed, it just isn't worth it.