Q Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with Q. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Qualities too elevated often unfit a man for society. We don't bring ingots with us to market; we take silver or small change.”
“Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills.”
“Quality and longevity are the primary criteria, along with repairability and ease of production.”
“Quality and perfection are achieved with time. You do not create a perfect painting or a perfect poem by hurrying. Time is always coming.”
“Quality and Timeliness are the steps that go together to win the race on the productivity track”
“Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings : Stereotyped from the Paris Edition : Complete in One Volume
“Quality attracts quality. People want to be on a good show.”
“Quality begins with the intent, which is fixed by management.”
“Quality brands never go bankrupt.”
“Quality brings security and confidence”
“Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare recipients to get, and keep, jobs.”
“Quality combines people power and process power.”
“Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process.”
“Quality control is applicable to any kind of enterprise. In fact, it must be applied in every enterprise.”
Source: Introduction to Quality Control
“Quality control starts and ends with training.”
“Quality control which cannot show results is not quality control. Let us engage in QC which makes so much money for the company that we do not know what to do with it.”
“Quality doesn't improve by sitting on things.”
“Quality doesn't mean deep blacks and whatever tonal range. That's not quality, that's a kind of quality. The pictures of Robert Frank might strike someone as being sloppy-the tone range isn't right and things like that-but they're far superior to the pictures of Ansel Adams with regard to quality, because the quality of Ansel Adams, if I may say so, is essentially the quality of a postcard. But the quality of Robert Frank is a quality that has something to do with what he's doing, what his mind is. It's not balancing out the sky to the sand and so forth. It's got to do with intention.”
“Quality doesn't mean we have to be 100 percent better in any one thing; it means we strive to be 1 percent better in 100 things.”
“Quality education is not a one-size-fits-all concept; it definition and scope is shaped by the unique needs, goals, and resources of each country and school.”
“Quality education transcends academic achievements; it encompasses holistic development, critical thinking skills, and preparation for lifelong success in an ever-changing world.”
“Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail.”
“Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail. We very often confuse personality with leadership. In other words, leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person.”
“Quality has always been the overriding factor for us. But you also have to have happy people working for you.”
“Quality has to be caused, not controlled.”
“Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.”
Source: The Making of the President: 1964
“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.”
Source: Innovation and Entrepreneurship
“Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it.”
“Quality in education is what makes learning a pleasure and a joy.”
“Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade.”
Source: A passion for excellence
“Quality IP comes from Quality effort.”
Source: Road Humps and Sidewalks
“Quality is a choice. Choose to make it better.”
“Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.”
Source: LILA An Inquriry into Morals
“Quality is a product of a conflict between programmers and testers.”
Source: Code Ahead
“Quality is above all.”
“Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity.”
“Quality is always in style.”
“Quality is better seen up at the timberline than here obscured by smoky windows and oceans of words, and he sees that what he is talking about can never really be accepted here because to see it one has to be free of social authority and this is an institution of social authority. Quality for sheep is what the shepherd says. And if you take a sheep and put it up at the timberline at night when the wind is roaring, that sheep will be panicked half to death and will call and call until the shepherd comes, or comes the wolf.”
“Quality is better than quantity.”
“Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“Quality is determined by accuracy and completeness.”
“Quality is everyone's responsibility.”
“Quality is first engineered; only then it is inspected”
“Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it.”
Source: Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
“Quality is free, however - the Management Systems that proliferate it are not.”
“Quality is free. It's not a gift, but it's free. The 'unquality' things are what cost money.”
“Quality is like quantity, but there's a lot less of it.”
“Quality is made in the board room. A worker can deliver lower quality, but she cannot deliver quality better than the system allow.”
“Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.”
“Quality is more than a promise, it's genuine performance.”