Knowledge Center

Quality Quotes

Every day the Knowledge Center brings you a different one-sentence take on the world of quality. If you have a favorite of your own, email it to us.

See recently featured quotes below, and find past quotes on the Knowledge Center Tumblr

Week of June 17

Friday, June 21: "It is better to light one candle than curse the darkness." - Christopher Society (motto)

Thursday, June 20: "The first job in decision making is to find the real problem and define it." - Peter Drucker

Wednesday, June 19: "The rightness or wrongness of an intuition is finally decided not by intuition itself but by the usual method of proof." - Jerome S. Bruner

Tuesday, June 18: "Quality improvement at a revolutionary pace is now becoming simply good management." - A. Blanton Godfrey

Monday, June 17: "Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things." - Theodore Levitt

Week of June 10

Friday, June 14: "To err is human, but to be paid for it is divine." - H. James Harrington

Thursday, June 13: "Fear always represents objects in their worst light." - Livy

Wednesday, June 12: "A leader teaches with patience. A manager without patience is no leader." - Rafael Aguayo

Tuesday, June 11: "A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words." - Thomas Huxley

Monday, June 10: "There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Week of June 3

Friday, June 7: "Difficult things take a long time; the impossible takes a little longer." - Anonymous

Thursday, June 6: "As if you could kill time, without injuring eternity." - Henry David Thoreau

Wednesday, June 5: "Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without." - Confucius

Tuesday, June 4: "With the customer as a reference point, priorities become easier to set." - Mary Walton

Monday, June 3: "‘What is our business?’ is not determined by the producer but by the customer." - Peter Drucker

Back to today's quote 

Rating

(0) Member Reviews

Featured advertisers




ASQ is a global community of people passionate about quality, who use the tools, their ideas and expertise to make our world work better. ASQ: The Global Voice of Quality.