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Quotes About Quantity

That the quality of service you render, plus the quantity, plus the mental attitude in which you render it determines the sort of job you hold and the amount of pay you receive.—NAPOLEON HILL
~ Napoleon Hill
The quality and quantity of the service you render, plus the attitude with which you render it, determine the amount of pay you get and the sort of job you hold.
~ Napoleon Hill
If one has a personality which PLEASES, and renders service in a spirit of HARMONY, these assets often make up for deficiencies in both the QUALITY, and the QUANTITY of service one renders. Nothing, however, can be SUCCESSFULLY SUBSTITUTED FOR PLEASING CONDUCT.
~ Napoleon Hill
A very rarely discussed property of data: it is toxic in large quantities
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Como se supone que dijo Stalin (que algo sabía sobre la mortalidad): «Una muerte es una tragedia; un millón de muertes, una estadística». La estadística permanece callada en nuestro interior.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In a population of hundreds of millions, such a small number of people is a mere drop in the bucket... but enough drops can make any bucket overflow
~ Neal Shusterman
I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought huge quantities. I could feel them wondering why I wasn't dead yet and it made me uncomfortable. They probably weren't thinking any such thing, but then a man gets paranoid when he has 300 hangovers a year.
~ Charles Bukowski
I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought huge quantities. I could feel them wondering why I wasn't dead yet and it made me feel uncomfortable. They probably weren't thinking any such thing, but then a man gets paranoid when he has 300 hangovers a year.
~ Charles Bukowski
his bed was where they slept and where the great thing people warned about or giggled about took place. It was not so much painful as dull. Cee thought it would get better later. Better turned out to be simply more, and while the quantity increased, its pleasure lay in its brevity.
~ Toni Morrison
It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.
~ George MacDonald
Valor is a poor substitute for numbers
~ George R.R. Martin
Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
~ George Santayana
Both the law and business have long recognized the propriety of quantity discounts. But since 1914 the Clayton Act has banned price discrimination "when the effect may be to substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly." And since 1936 the Robinson-Patman Act has recognized such quantity discounts as legal only if they represent a saving in cost, and the law places the burden of proof on the seller.
~ George W. Stocking
There must be at least 500 million rats in the United States; of course, I am speaking only from memory.
~ Edgar Wilson Nye
Yes, Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brain. So far you are correct. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat — at least not with certainty. If the specimen composition you send is about your fair usual average, I suggest that perhaps a couple of whales would be all you would want for the present. Not the largest kind, but simply good middling-sized whales.
~ Mark Twain
There are too much of them according to our scales, not to theirs... The more, the happier.
~ J.M. Coetzee
What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?
~ Brian Ferneyhough
Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
The powers of a man's mind are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drank.
~ James Mackintosh
The common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.
~ Ludwig von Mises
Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
I've made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good.
~ Tom Hanks
produced more transistors than the combined quantity of all goods produced by all other companies, in all other industries, in all human history. Nothing else comes close.
~ Chris Miller
Microcomputer companies sold equipment as if it were corn, in large quantities; they spent most of their money making things and competed not by being polite but by being aggressive. Minicomputer companies split the differences more or less; they sold some machines and service to actual users, but spent most of their money on hardware and did a big business by selling machines in quantity to OEMs.
~ Tracy Kidder