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Everything can be improved.
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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.
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One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
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If it's good they'll stop making it.
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When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.
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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.
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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.
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The bitterness of poor quality remains long after low pricing is forgotten!
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There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.
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Quality is everyone's responsibility.
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The job can't be finished only improved to please the customer.
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Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.
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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.
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Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The best is the cheapest.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.
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If you want work well done, select a busy man; the other kind has no time.
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Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Permit no hour to go by without it due improvement.
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By the work one knows the workmen.
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We are never so ridiculous by the qualities we have, as by those we affect to have.
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Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguard bad work.
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The best ad is a good product.
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Quality begins on the inside... and then works its way out.
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Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
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Quicker by taking more time.
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Pay beforehand if you would have your work poorly done.
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Could everything be done twice it would be done better.
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What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.
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Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
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Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten.
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Not too long ago, if you did 75 percent of the things you did right, it was okay. Now, if you don't do 98 percent of those things right, some competitor will eat you for lunch.
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Ninety percent of everything is crap.
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Quality will be prized as a precious possession.
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When you're out of quality you're out of business.
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Produce great pumpkins, the pies will follow later.
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If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over.
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It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.
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Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
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