Quality And Productivity Quotes

#1. Improve constantly and forever the system of production and service, to improve quality and productivity, and thus constantly decrease costs.

W. Edwards Deming

#2. It is not enough that top management commit themselves for life to quality and productivity. They must know what it is that they are committed to - that is, what they must do. These obligations cannot be delegated. Support is not enough; action is required.

W. Edwards Deming

#3. I understand politics and I know there's gonna be a lot of verbage.

George W. Bush

#4. The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, which highlights customer satisfaction, workforce empowerment, and increased productivity, has come to symbolize America's commitment to excellence.

William J. Clinton

#5. Position yourself to succeed by doing the other things in your life that rejuvenate you. You can create little islands of time away from your novel that will help preserve your balance. Exhaustion will affect both your writing's quality and your productivity.

Jeff VanderMeer

#6. The people who work in the fashion industry and the people who work in the film industry have a lot in common. They're very creative. Their eye is very aesthetic.

Gal Gadot

#7. Productivity depends on many factors, including our workforce's knowledge and skills and the quantity and quality of the capital, technology, and infrastructure that they have to work with.

Janet Yellen

#8. As long as a man has desires there is no end to his transmigration. It is the desires alone that make him take one body after another. There will be rebirth for a man if he has even the desire to eat a piece of candy.

Sarada Devi

#9. Past time is finite, future time is infinite.

Edwin Powell Hubble

#10. By changing our mindset and habits, we can actually dramatically change the course of life, improve intelligence, productivity, improve the quality of our lives, and improve every single education and business outcome.

Shawn Achor

#11. Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.

William Blake

#12. There has to be something other than keeping busy that gives human life value, because our society so often functions as if 'productivity' and/or 'usefulness' are the measures of human value, and - particularly for artists - this is deeply problematic. We shouldn't given in.

Tasha Golden

#13. In manufacturing, where mechanization and the use of chemical processes are much easier, it is easier to raise productivity than in services. In contrast, by their very nature, many service activities are inherently impervious to productivity increase without diluting the quality of the product.

Ha-Joon Chang

#14. The absence of high-quality friendships is bad for your health, spirits, productivity, and longevity.

Tom Rath

#15. Again and again, universities have put a low priority on the very programs and initiatives that are needed most to increase productivity and competitiveness, improve the quality of government, and overcome the problems of illiteracy, miseducation, and unemployment.

Derek Bok

#16. Who will tend the farm museums who will dust the day belongings?

Michael Stipe

#17. That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries.

Adam Smith

#18. Yes. However, remember - productivity is more than just the quantity of work done. It is also the quality.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

#19. I understand that SPEED is an indispensable quality but I discovered lately that WAITING also works most times with even better results.

Amos Gideon Buba

#20. Influence could get me inside the door, but my productivity and the quality of my work were the real tests.

Ben Carson

#21. There are two kinds of hangover: in one you feel ill and incapable, in the other you feel ill and lucid.

John Fowles

#22. Indian IT corporations have made work in the U.S. much more efficient by enhancing their productivity and quality of work. We have helped to add sufficient value to the corporations in the U.S.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#23. Watching 'Doctor Who' in the United States meant I was always behind the times - PBS didn't get new episodes until two years after they ran, and I was aware of the show's cancellation before the characters themselves knew, at least in my corner of the world.

Seanan McGuire

#24. It is time to rekindle the spirit of the Renaissancee to achieve a golden age that will be a turning point for human productivity and quality of life.

Joel Garreau

#25. Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the highest standards of quality and performance.

J.R.D. Tata

#26. Quality, productivity, and innovation can be significantly increased if companies provide all employees with practical tools for exploiting potential information

William Hunter

#27. As it turns out, American-made technology had helped Mubarak and his security state collect, compile, and parse vast amounts of data about everyday citizens.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#28. America's economic strength depends on industry's ability to improve productivity and quality and to remain on the cutting edge of technology, and that's why the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is so important.

Ronald Reagan

#29. Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don't have as much to sell. Your workers don't want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That's inflation.

W. Edwards Deming

#30. We do 32 episodes a season and will have shot 267 episodes by the end of the ninth season ... It's impossible to sell that many episodes in the foreign market.

Aaron Spelling

#31. The words are said. We're one. You will have my name and all that I own, Nova. We are one. You saved my life. But more than that, you saved my soul.

Candace Sams

#32. I don't understand small businesses, only big ones. Marriage is the hardest small business.

Mikhail Prokhorov

#33. Empowering small farmers to increase productivity, improve crop quality and access reliable markets is critical to addressing global hunger and poverty.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

#34. The use of lines of code metrics for productivity and quality studies [is] to be regarded as professional malpractice starting in 1995.

Capers Jones

#35. Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.

Pearl Bailey

#36. Study after study has shown that motivation probably has a larger effect on productivity and quality than any other factor

Steve McConnell

#37. Improve quality, you automatically improve productivity.

W. Edwards Deming

#38. The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity - but every word must be supercharged, high-voltage.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#39. As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.

Alex Campbell