Quotes on Quality! 150 Quotes to Inspire Quality and Success

Quotes on Quality

  • “Quality is not act. It is a habit.” —Aristotle
  • “Do or do not… there is no try.” —Yoda
  • “Anything worth doing is worth doing right the first time.” —Unknown
  • “Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.” —Henry Ford
  • “It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.” —W. Edwards Deming
  • “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” —Peter Drucker
  • “Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.” —Steve Jobs
  • “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different outcomes.” —Einstein
  • “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.” —Steve Jobs
  • “Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.” —William A. Foster

Best Quality Quotes and Sayings

  • “Quality is Free.”
  • “Everything can be improved.”
  • “Quality is everyone’s responsibility.”
  • “100% inspection is business suicide!”
  • “Business survival now depends upon quality.”
  • “Beauty is less important than quality.”
  • “Quality is everyone’s responsibility.” —W. Edwards Deming
  • “Make the workmanship surpass the materials.” —Ovid
  • “Quality is the battle ground of tomorrow!”
  • “If it’s good they’ll stop making it.”
  • “Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.”
  • “Productivity goes up as quality goes up.”
  • “The best ad is a good product.”
  • “Things of quality have no fear of time.”
  • “Quality is pride of workmanship.” —W. Edwards Deming
  • “Quality is the best business plan.” —John Lasseter
  • “Quality will be prized as a precious possession.”
  • “Quality is in the eye of the beholder.”
  • “The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.”
  • “Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten.”
  • “When you’re out of quality you’re out of business.”
  • “Quality has to be caused, not controlled.” —Philip Crosby
  • “Quality is a proud and soaring thing.” —Jessica Julian
  • “Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”
  • “Quality is not an act, it is a habit.” —Aristotle
  • “Whether for life or death, do your own work well.”
  • “The quality of life is more important than life itself.”
  • “Quality begins with the intent, which is fixed by management.”
  • “Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
  • “Measure what is measurable and make measurable what is not.”
  • “Permit no hour to go by without it due improvement.”
  • “Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.”
  • “Quality is what the buyer says it is.” —Armand V. Feigenbaum
  • “Give them quality. That’s the best kind of advertising.” —Milton Hersey
  • “Quality begins on the inside… and then works its way out.”
  • “Quality is in its essence a way of managing the organization.”
  • “The job can’t be finished only improved to please the customer.”
  • “Quality is a serious matter and should be treated that way.”
  • “Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.” —Henry Ford
  • “Quality begins on the inside then works its way out.” —Bob Moawad
  • “Quality is a multi-faceted body. It has to encompass the entire organization.”
  • “The bitterness of poor quality remains long after low pricing is forgotten!”
  • “You never get a second chance to make a good first impression.”
  • “If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.”
  • “Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.”
  • “It is easier to confess a defect than to claim quality.” —Max Beerbohm
  • “Quality begins with the intent, which is fixed by management.” —W. Edwards Deming
  • “Quality is the degree of excellence at an acceptable price.” —Robert A. Broh
  • “In the race for quality, there is no finish line.” —David T. Kearns
  • “Mere allocation of huge sums of money for quality will not bring quality.”
  • “The bitterness of poor quality lingers long after the sweetness of meeting schedule.”
  • “If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.” —William James
  • “It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn’t.”
  • “The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.”
  • “Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.”
  • “Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.”
  • “It is not enough to simply “do your best”. You must strive for perfection.”
  • “Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.”
  • “The bitterness of poor quality remains long after low pricing is forgotten.” —Leon M. Cautillo
  • “Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.” —John Ruskin
  • “There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.”
  • “Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.”
  • “It’s always easier to make quality product rather than explaining why the product is without quality.”
  • “When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.”
  • “If you want work well done, select a busy man; the other kind has no time.”
  • “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”
  • “The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.”
  • “Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.”
  • “The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.”
  • “If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it over.”
  • “One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.”
  • “Quality means building the customer’s point of view into every aspect of a product from design to final recycling.”
  • “Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.”
  • “Quality is free. It’s not a gift, but it’s free. The ‘unquality’ things are what cost money.” —Philip B. Crosby
  • “Quality improvement is the responsibility of everyone at all levels in the company rather than those of quality departments only.”
  • “Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.” —Anthony Robbins
  • “Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.”
  • “A quality company has a culture which develops people, enables managers to guide effectively, and the staff feels that their efforts are worthwhile.”
  • “If you believe in unlimited quality and act in all your business dealings with total integrity, the rest will take care of itself.” —Frank Perdue
  • “Quality is not what happens when what you do matches your intentions. It is what happens when what you do matches your customers’ expectations.” —Guaspari
  • “Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.” —Philip Crosby
  • “Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.”
  • “Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.” —William A. Foster
  • “Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don’t see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die.” —Gary Hirshberg
  • “Quality isn’t something that can be argued into an article or promised into it. It must be put there. If it isn’t put there, the finest sales talk in the world won’t act as a substitute.” —C. G. Campbell
  • “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. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.” —Peter F. Drucker

Inspirational Quotes on Quality and Success

  • “A bad workman blames his tools.” —Chinese Proverb
  • “In every crisis, there is opportunity.” —Chinese Proverb
  • “Every action is an opportunity to improve.” —Mark Graban
  • “The starting point of all achievement is desire.” —Napoleon Hill
  • “If a thing’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well.” —Chinese Proverb
  • “Be passionate about solving the problem, not proving your solution.” —Nathan Furr
  • “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.” —Robert Collier
  • “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” —Albert Einstein
  • “The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize.” —Shigeo Shingo
  • “More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.” —Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
  • “Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.” —Tom Peters
  • “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” —Thomas A. Edison
  • “A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided.” —Tony Robbins
  • “Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving your other innovations.” —Steve Jobs
  • “Without changing our patterns of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems that we created with our current patterns of thought.” —Albert Einstein

Quantity Over Quality Quotes

  • “If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.”
  • “It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.”
  • “It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind’s dignity.”
  • “It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.”
  • “It is quality, rather than quantity, that matters.” —Seneca The Younger
  • “To be successful, you have to have quantity of quality.” —Mark Frauenfelder
  • “Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.” —Steve Jobs
  • “It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.” —Mahatma Gandhi

Great Quotes on Quality

  • “Everything can be improved.” —C. W. Barron
  • “Quality is not an act. It is a habit.” —Aristotle
  • “It is quality rather than quantity that matters.” —Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • “By the work one knows the workmen.” —Jean De La Fontaine
  • “The quality of life is more important than life itself.” —Alexis Carrel
  • “Always do things right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.” —Mark Twain
  • “The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • “Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.” —Steve Brown
  • “There is no such thing as a perfect method. Methods always can be improved upon.” —Walter Daiber
  • “The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.” —Tony Robbins
  • “One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.” —Josh Billings
  • “Eventually everything connects – people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.” —Charles Eames
  • “Quality needs to be constantly improved, but it is just as necessary to make sure that quality never deteriorates.” —Shigeru Mizuno
  • “Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.” —Marabel Morgan
  • “To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.” —Bruce Lee
  • “The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.” —Vince Lombardi
  • “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
  • “Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way… you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.” ― Aristotle

Quality Quotes and Sayings

  • “Quality is everyone’s responsibility.” —W. Edwards Deming
  • “The best is the cheapest.” —Benjamin Franklin
  • “Total quality management is a journey, not a destination.” —Berry
  • “Things of quality have no fear of time.” —Author Unknown
  • “Give them quality. That’s the best kind of advertising.” —Milton Hersey
  • “When you’re out of quality you’re out of business.” —Author Unknown
  • “Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten.” —Gucci Family Slogan
  • “The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.” —Andre Godin
  • “Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.” —Author Unknown
  • “If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.” —William James
  • “Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.” —John Ruskin
  • “Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.” —Robert M. Pirsig
  • “Quality is a sense of appreciation that something is better than something else.” —John Stewart
  • “The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • “The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.
  • “It’s always easier to make quality product rather than explaining why product is without quality.” —Author Unknown
  • “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.” —Steve Jobs
  • “Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.” —Theodore White
  • “Quality is free. It’s not a gift, but it’s free. The ‘inequality’ things are what cost money.” —Philip B. Crosby
  • “Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so master them.” —Theodor Adorno
  • “Quality: the standard of something as measured against other things of a similar kind; the degree of excellence of something.” —Author Unknown
  • “The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.” —Vince Lombardi
  • “Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.” —George Washington
  • “Quality is not what happens when what you do matches your intentions. It is what happens when what you do matches your customers’ expectations.” —Guaspari
  • “Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.” —William James
  • Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.” —Philip Crosby
  • “A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.” —Stephen Covey
  • “Quality is such an attractive banner that sometimes we think we can get away with just waving it, without doing the hard work necessary to achieve it.” —Philip B. Crosby
  • “Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don’t see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die.” —Gary Hirshberg
  • “Quality isn’t something that can be argued into an article or promised into it. It must be put there. If it isn’t put there, the finest sales talk in the world won’t act as a substitute.” —C. G. Campbell