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“Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. Such exhortations only create adversarial relationships, as the bulk of the causes of low quality and low productivity belong to the system and thus lie beyond the power of the work force”

Lying Force Causes Levels Quality Lows Asking Safety Productivity Target Zero Defects Slogans Zero Defects

Book:The Essential Deming: Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality

Source: The Essential Deming: Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality

“Good sense alone is a sedate and quiescent quality, which manages its possessions well, but does not increase them; it collects few materials for its own operations, and preserves safety, but never gains supremacy.”

Wells Doe Happiness Success Quality Materials Gains Increase Safety Possession Manage Preserves Operations Good Sense Supremacy

Book:Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt

Source: Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt

“Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and safety, be known to want. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly.”

Want Art Might Quality Known Safety Burden Chosen Innocence Folly Hypocrisy Distinguished Villainy

Book:The Beauties of Samuel Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous

Source: The Beauties of Samuel Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous

“It is our argument that a sufficiently low price can turn a security of mediocre quality into a sound investment opportunity - provided that the buyer is informed and experienced and he practices adequate diversification. For, if the price is low enough to create a substantial margin of safety, the security thereby meets our criterion of investment.”

Ifs Enough Turns Opportunity Sound Quality Practice Security Lows Argument Safety Investment Investing Mediocre Adequate Criteria Margins Buyers Diversification

Author:Benjamin Graham

“Employees are given the chance to help shape their company by participating in a company-wide communications program making suggestions on waste reduction, environmental improvement, customer satisfaction, quality improvement, and safety issues.”

“Most Americans believe in fairness; we believe that people should work hard but there should be a safety net. We believe in saving the quality of our air and water for our children. Most Americans want action on climate change. You can just go through the list. Most Americans believe in progressive taxation.”

People Believe Children Action Water Quality Hard Work Our Children Safety Climate Change Progressive Fairness Safety Net

Author:Nancy MacLean

“p.61 He [Roark] was usually disliked, from the first sight of his face, anywhere he went. His face was closed like the door of a safety vault; things locked in safety vaults are valuable; men did not care to feel that. He was a cold, disquieting presence in the room; his presence had a strange quality: it made itself felt and yet it made them feel that he was not there; or perhaps that he was and they weren't.”

Men Feels Firsts Made Care Faces Felt Rooms Quality Doors Strange Cold Sight Safety Valuable Locked Vaults

Author:Ayn Rand

“At the tail end of the great global boom, their old richer consumers are behaving more like new poorer ones, also increasingly concerned about cost, quality, and safety.”

Ends Business Quality Cost Concerned Safety Consumers Tails

Author:Andrew Curry

“Communities and neighborhoods are affected. Idling trains, traffic backups, grade crossing accidents and other safety issues all affect the quality of life in our neighborhoods.”

Community Quality Issues Safety Train Accidents Grades Neighborhood Affected Traffic Quality Of Life Crossings Backup Workplace Safety

Author:Bill Lipinski

“Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of good business conditions. The purchasers view the good current earnings as equivalent to 'earning power' and assume that prosperity is equivalent to safety.”

Years Loss Views Quality Conditions Security Taught Lows Safety Assuming Currents Prosperity Observation Chiefs Investors Earning Taught Us Good Business Purchasers

Author:Benjamin Graham

“...testifying for Dr. Privitera...To these 19 cancer victims, the enforcement of (California) Health and Safety Code Sect. 1701.1, the denial of them medical treatment, albeit unorthodox, albeit unapproved by a state agency, must surely take on a Kafka-esque, a nightmare quality. No demonstrated public anger, no compelling interest of the state warrants an Orwellian intrusion into the most private of zones of privacy.”

“For the record, I am sticking with my claim that the simultaneous degradation of air quality, water quality, water supply, food safety, soil quality, and other environment-related variables is the main challenge to China's continued development.”

Water Challenges Quality Records Environment Air Development Claims Safety China Related Soil Degradation Variables Simultaneous Food Safety Air Quality Water Quality

Author:James Fallows

“The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality - what a joke. In my district, we caught them lying to us about the results of air quality studies in the Barnett Shale. They are playing with the health and safety of our communities, and we are going to tell them that is not acceptable.”

Lying Community Results Quality Study Air Jokes Safety Environmental Caught Texas Acceptable Our Community Health And Safety Air Quality Environmental Quality

Author:Wendy Davis