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Get Inspired for Success Strategy 8: Believe in Yourself

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its piped nor its theories w ill hold water.  

- John Gardner  

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.  

- Willa A Foster  

Everything can be improved.  

- C W Barron  

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  

One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.  

- Josh Billings  

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  

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 everyone's responsibility.  

- W Edwards Deming  

The job can't be finished only improved to please the customer.  

- W Edwards Deming  

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  

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  

If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.  

- Henry Ford  

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  

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.  

- Mahatma Gandhi  

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.  

- Benjamin Haydon  

If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.  

- Geoffrey Hickson  

If you want work well done, select a busy man; the other kind has no time.  

- Elbert Hubbard  

Permit no hour to go by without it due improvement.  

- Thomas A Kempis  

By the work one knows the workmen.  

- Jean De La Fontaine  

The best ad is a good product.  

- Alan H Meyer  

Quality begins on the inside... and then works its way out.  

- Bob Moawad  

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.  

- Ovid  

Quicker by taking more time.  

- Proverb  

Could everything be done twice it would be done better.  

- Proverb  

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.  

- John Ruskin  

Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten.  

- Gucci Family Slogan  

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.  

- John Spoelhof  

If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over.  

- Source Unknown  

Produce great pumpkins, the pies will follow later.  

- Source Unknown  

Quality will be prized as a precious possession.  

- Source Unknown  

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.  

- Martin Van Buren  

When you're out of quality you're out of business.  

- Source Unknown  

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.  

- Theodore White  

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