Pay beforehand if you would have your work poorly done. – Proverb
Could everything be done twice it would be done better. – Proverb
Everything can be improved. – C. W. Barron
Men are more important than tools. If you dont believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor workman. – John J. Bernet
If its good theyll stop making it. – Henry Block
When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose. – Napoleon Bonaparte
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well. – Steve Brown
So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You cant fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal. – William S. Burroughs
Quality isnt something that can be argued into an article or promised into it. It must be put there. If it isnt put there, the finest sales talk in the world wont act as a substitute. – C. G. Campbell
No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment. – Thomas Carlyle
The bitterness of poor quality remains long after low pricing is forgotten! – Leon M. Cautillo
There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right. – Bill Cosby
Quality is everyones responsibility. – W. Edwards Deming
The job cant be finished only improved to please the customer. – W. Edwards Deming
Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. – Peter Drucker
Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. – Wyatt Earp
The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. – Finagle
If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere. – Henry Ford
