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Quicker by taking more time.
-Proverb
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Pay beforehand if you would have your work poorly done.
-Proverb
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Could everything be done twice it would be done better.
-Proverb
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Everything can be improved.
-C. W. Barron
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Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor workman.
-John J. Bernet
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One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
-Josh Billings
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If it's good they'll stop making it.
-Henry Block
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When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.
-Steve Brown
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So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
-William S. Burroughs
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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
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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
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The bitterness of poor quality remains long after low pricing is forgotten!
-Leon M. Cautillo
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There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.
-Bill Cosby
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Quality is everyone's responsibility.
-W. Edwards Deming
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The job can't be finished only improved to please the customer.
-W. Edwards Deming
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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
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Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.
-Wyatt Earp
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The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
-Finagle
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There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
-Henry Ford
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If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.
-Henry Ford
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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
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The best is the cheapest.
-Benjamin Franklin
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Good, better, best - never let it rest - till your good is better - and your better best.
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-John Furphy
Inscription on the end castings of the Furphy Farm Water Cart
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Books about Quality
