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,
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Recently Featured Quotes
Week of February 6
Thursday, February 9: "Some men see things as they are, and say, 'Why?' I dream of things that never were, and say, 'Why not?' " - Bernard Shaw
Wednesday, February 8: "Quality is when the customer returns and the product does not." - submitted by Tim Robertson, PD> Product Development & Global Technology
Tuesday, February 7: "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world." - Albert Einstein
Monday, February 6: "Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances. Strong men believe in cause and effect." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Week of January 30
Sunday, February 5: "The best way to predict the future is to create it." - Peter Drucker
Saturday, February 4: "Quality needs to be constantly improved, but it is just as necessary to make sure that quality never deteriorates." - Shigeru Mizuno
Friday, February 3: "Quality control and standardization are extremely closely linked." - Katsuya Hosotani
Thursday, February 2: "Self-generated quality control is more effective than inspector-generated quality control." - Thomas J. Peters
Wednesday, February 1: "Brevity is the soul of wit." - William Shakespeare
Tuesday, January 31: "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." - H. G. Wells
Monday, January 30: "The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher." - Thomas Huxley
Week of January 23
Sunday, January 29: "The customers do not feel the average. They feel the variation." - Tom Groark
Saturday, January 28: "There is no such thing as a perfect method. Methods ALWAYS can be improved upon." - Walter Daiber
Friday, January 27: "Quality is to product as grammar is to language." - Govind Ramu
Thursday, January 26: "That which we persist in doing becomes easier - not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wednesday, January 25: "An environment which calls for perfection is not likely to be easy. But aiming for it is always a goad to progress."
- Thomas Watson Jr. (IBM)
Tuesday, January 24: "Do not let the tiniest problem escape your notice. Remember: little brooks grow into mighty rivers." - Katsuyoshi Ishihara
Monday, January 23: "Thee findeth a solution and I promise thee to findeth another problem to mull...." - Sameer B. Chougle
