Your success will be affected by the quality and quantity of new ideas you suggest.
—Brian Tracy (b.1944) American Author, Motivational Speaker
Quality will be prized as a precious possession.
—Unknown
It’s the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It’s a quality to be proud of. But it’s a quality that many people seem to have neglected.
—Gerald Ford (1913–2006) American Head of State
Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (c.43 BCE–c.18 CE) Roman Poet
If you want work well done, select a busy man; the other kind has no time.
—Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American Writer, Publisher, Artist, Philosopher
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
—Juvenal (c.60–c.136 CE) Roman Poet
It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn’t.
—Martin Van Buren (1782–1862) American President, Politician
I have never known a concern to make a decided success that did not do good, honest work, and even in these days of fiercest competition, when everything would seem to be a matter of price, there lies still at the root of great business success the very much more important factor of quality. The effect of attention to quality, upon every man in the service, from the president of the concern down to the humblest laborer, cannot be overestimated.
—Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) Scottish-American Industrialist
Produce great pumpkins, the pies will follow later.
—Unknown
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly, and take care, that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
—Marcus Aurelius (121–180) Emperor of Rome, Stoic Philosopher
What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.
—John Ruskin (1819–1900) English Writer, Art Critic
The surest foundation of a manufacturing concern is quality. After that, and a long way after, comes cost.
—Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) Scottish-American Industrialist
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
—Robert M. Pirsig (b.1928) American Writer, Philosopher, Author
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
—Indian Proverb
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for ’tis better to be alone than in bad company.
—George Washington (1732–99) American Head of State, Military Leader
If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it over.
—Unknown
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind’s dignity.
—William Ellery Channing (1780–1842) American Unitarian Theologian, Poet
The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American Head of State, Military Leader
High people, Sir, are the best: Take a hundred ladies of quality, you’ll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own pleasures to their children, than a hundred other women.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the “as if” technique.
—William James (1842–1910) American Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
—Ray Kroc (1902–84) American Entrepreneur, Businessperson
Popularity is not an indication of quality.
—Vanna Bonta (1958–2014) Italian-American Novelist, Poet, Actress
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948) Indian Hindu Political leader
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
—Tony Robbins (b.1960) American Self-Help Author, Entrepreneur
The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.
—Sun Tzu (fl.c.544–496 BCE) Chinese General, Military Theorist
The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
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 (1914–97) American Novelist, Poet, Short Story Writer, Painter
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
—John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) American Oil Magnate, Philanthropist
I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
—Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American Historian, Political Leader, Explorer
The job can’t be finished only improved to please the customer.
—W. Edwards Deming (1900–93) American Engineer, Statistician
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