“We cannot rely on mass inspection to improve quality, though there are times when 100 percent inspection is necessary. As Harold S. Dodge said many years ago, 'You cannot inspect quality into a product.' The quality is there or it isn't by the time it's inspected.” YearsSaidQualityProductsMassPercentYears AgoRelyInspectionDodge Author:W. Edwards Deming
“I've been wearing hearing aids for a long time. The technology available now is simply unbelievable. When I compare the new digital products to what we had 30 years ago, it's an amazing difference.... There was a time when I couldn't hear what most people said to me, most of the time. But with the hearing aids, I understand just about everything ... it really is very impressive.” PeopleYearsLongSaidDifferencesTechnologyProductsLong TimeYears AgoAvailableHearingAidsCompareDigitalUnbelievableImpressiveVery ImpressiveHearing Aids Author:Arnold Palmer
“The fact that you can take LEGO bricks from thirty years ago and they still snap together with the same new LEGO brick that comes out, I mean what type of product can span generations like that, there is something really special to it.” YearsMeanStillsFactsTogetherGenerationsSpecialProductsTypeYears AgoThirtyBricksSnapsThirty YearsLegos Author:Nathan Sawaya
“If only I had known a year ago what I'd be facing now. Until last year I lived with the innocent arrogance that my life was a simple product of effort, will, and design. But now I am a house of cards, held precariously by the fragile conspiracy of wind, weight, and angle. Perhaps it is best we cannot see into our futures.” IfsYearsLastsHouseSimpleEffortKnownDesignWindProductsYears AgoWeightInnocentCardsArroganceOur FutureFragileConspiracyLast YearAngleHouse Of Cards Author:Martha Manning
“Your doubts are not the product of accurate thinking, but habitual thinking. Years ago you excepted flawed conclusions as correct, begin to live your life as if those warped ideas about your potential were true, and ceased the bold experiment in living that brought you many breakthrough behaviors as a child.” IfsThinkingYearsChildrenIdeasDoubtProductsBehaviorYears AgoExperimentsConclusionAccurateLive Your LifeFlawedBreakthroughHabitual Book:You2: a high-velocity formula for multiplying your personal effectiveness in quantum leaps Source: You2: a high-velocity formula for multiplying your personal effectiveness in quantum leaps
“If the present American laws concerning the taxation of the profits of corporations, the incomes of individuals, and inheritances had been introduced about 60 years ago, all those new products whose consumption has raised the standard of living of the 'common man' would either not be produced at all or only in small quantities for the benefit of a minority. The Ford enterprises would not exist if Henry Ford's profits had been taxed away as soon as they came into being.” IfsMenYearsLawIndividualCommonProductsBenefitsStandardsYears AgoRaisedProfitIncomeCorporationsEnterpriseMinoritiesQuantityConsumptionTaxationInheritanceStandards Of LivingCommon ManNew ProductsAmerican Law Author:Ludwig von Mises
“People like to blame Mexican food, but look at what's happening globally, look at all the fast foods and products filled with trans fat. Before the Mexican Revolution, a hundred years ago, people were eating what now macrobiotics tells us to eat, corn, black beans, rice. That's what people were eating - and chile peppers. That's a healthy diet.” PeopleYearsLooksBlackProductsRevolutionHealthyEatingHappeningsHundredYears AgoBlameFilledFatsDietsMexicanCornRiceBeansTransFast FoodPeppersChileHealthy DietBlame MeMexican FoodMexican Revolution Author:Sandra Cisneros
“People like to blame Mexican food, but look at what's happening globally, look at all the fast foods and products filled with trans fat. Before the Mexican Revolution, a hundred years ago, people were eating what now macrobiotics tells us to eat, corn, black beans, rice. That's what people were eating - and chile peppers. That's a healthy diet. And also they ate a lot of vegetables.” PeopleYearsLooksBlackProductsRevolutionHealthyEatingHappeningsHundredYears AgoBlameFilledFatsDietsVegetablesMexicanCornRiceBeansTransFast FoodPeppersChileHealthy DietBlame MeMexican FoodMexican Revolution Author:Sandra Cisneros