Quotes About Quality

We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems.

Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.

If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years

They have come across an aspect of product performance about a brand that is startlingly impressive: that a Land Rover is designed to be able to drive 4,000 miles continually off-road, for example; that the airline I flew in on this morning had a masseuse on the plane that gave me a neck massage when I woke up; or that an ice cream that was forced upon me last night contained preposterously large chunks of Toffee Chocolate Fudge.

The wages of labour are the encouragement of industry, which, like every other human quality, improves in proportion to the encouragement it receives.

Paradoxically, the best way to attract good work is by doing good work.

He just likes to have fun, Papa. That's not a quality that gets you far in life.

If bright water you stain with mud, you nevermore will find it fit to drink.

The value is in the worth, not in the number.

I have always believed that a trademark is the life of an enterprise and that it must be protected boldly. A trademark and a company name are not just clever gimmicks-they carry responsibility and guarantee the quality of the product. If someone tries to get a free ride on the reputation and the ability of another who has worked to build up public trust, it is nothing short of thievery. We were not flattered by this theft of our name.

Building your brand on quality is like building your house on sand. You can build quality into your product, but that has little to do with your success in the marketplace.

The great works of art have about them the quality of a reminder.

Analogising architecture with ethics helps us to discern that there is unlikely ever to be a single source of beauty in a building, just as no one quality can ever underpin excellence in a person.

THE MYTH: Money is the indicator of wealth. THE REALITY: Quality of life is the real indicator of wealth.

It's not more time you need. It's more quality use of the time you already have.

When something sucks, it saps your energy and undermines the quality of your life. It makes you feel smaller and wish you hadn't participated.

What's more, the only available economic upside comes from making your product or service more desirable by improving its quality, and you can't do that by reducing the money you spend designing or programming

I do not blame programmers for hard-to-use software, and I'm very sorry to have given any programmer a contrary impression. With few exceptions, the programmers I know are diligent and conscientious in their desire to please end users and are unceasing in their efforts to improve their programs' quality. Just like users, programmers are simply another victim of a flawed process that leaves them too little time, too many conflicting orders, and utterly insufficient guidance.

The intractability of the software-construction process—particularly the high cost of programming and the low quality of interaction—is simply not a technical problem. It is the result of business practices imposed on a discipline—software programming—for which they are obsolete.

Suppose that time is not a quantity but a quality, like the luminescence of the night above the trees just when a rising moon has touched the treeline. Time exists, but it cannot be measured.

The things that are most popular are usually rubbish, stand up for what's important, not popular.

Quality, it seems, is a necessary, but insufficient attribute for success.

Hemos llegado al punto en que debemos dejar de sentirnos satisfechos, la solución es evidente: reducir el ritmo de la natalidad, sin poner obstáculos a la estructura social existente; evitar un aumento en cantidad, sin impedir un aumento en calidad.