Quotes About Quality

What should we change in our product development process? Eliminate waste? Increase quality? Raise efficiency? Shorten cycle time? The key to answering this question is to step back to a more basic question: Why do we want to change the product development process? The answer: to increase profits.

The quality of life is more important than life itself.

Only mediocrity escapes criticism.

Children are a quality of life ... when our children are happy, then we are better as human beings.

There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life.

In the 21st century, I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty and introduce more sustainability.

For me that's one of the great indulgences in life - a hand-tailored suit, and a great pair of handmade shoes.

Decorating is not about making stage sets, it's not about making pretty pictures for the magazines, it's really about creating a quality of life, a beauty that nourishes the soul.

You have only so many bottles in your life, never drink a bad one.

The most important thing is to live a fabulous life. As long as it's fabulous I don't care how long it is.

Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better.

Where the quality of life goes down for the environment, the quality of life goes down for humans.

Life is too short to read a bad book.

Life is too short to drink bad wine.

Even more importantly, it's wine, food and the arts. Incorporating those three enhances the quality of life.

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

I would not want to live with a tube in my neck and not be able to move a finger. I wouldn't - that to me is not life.

There's a movement for simplifying your life: purchase less stuff, own a few things that are very high quality that last a long time, and that are multifunctional.

It is our decisions not our conditions that determine our quality of life.

Life is too short to be lived badly.

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Decoration is really about creating a quality of life, and a beauty in that life that nourishes the soul, that makes life beautiful.

A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue.