Quality Cost Quotes

#1. Greening school design provides an extraordinarily cost-effective way to enhance student learning, reduce health and operational costs and, ultimately, increase school quality and competitiveness.

Gregory Kats

#2. Providing patients and consumers with solid information on the cost and quality of their healthcare options can literally make the difference between life or death; and play a decisive role in whether a family or employer can afford healthcare.

Timothy Murphy

#3. Day care poses no risk for children, provided that it is high quality ... Poor quality day care is risky for children everywhere ... The cost of poor quality day care is measured in children's lives. High quality day care costs only money.

Sandra Scarr

#4. When you can't compete on cost, compete on quality.

James Dyson

#5. Six Sigma is a quality program that, when all is said and done, improves your customers' experience, lowers your costs, and builds better leaders.

Jack Welch

#6. Cost is more important than quality but quality is the best way to reduce cost.

Genichi Taguchi

#7. High-quality software is not expensive. High-quality software is faster and cheaper to build and maintain than low-quality software, from initial development all the way through total cost of ownership.

Capers Jones

#8. The fact of the matter is right now politicians and insurance companies are making decisions. We're saying we want doctors to be making decisions. And I think that will lead to a higher-quality, lower-cost system over time.

Peter Orszag

#9. Quality is free. It's not a gift, but it's free. The 'unquality' things are what cost money.

Phil Crosby

#10. When goods are digital, they can be replicated with perfect quality at nearly zero cost, and they can be delivered almost instantaneously. Welcome to the economics of abundance.

Erik Brynjolfsson

#11. We need a cost-effective, high-quality health care system, guaranteeing health care to all of our people as a right.

Hillary Clinton

#12. The purpose of logistics management is to plan and coordinate all those activities necessary to achieve desired levels of delivered service and quality at lowest possible cost.

SATISH C. AILAWADI

#13. Expensive quality work doesn't cost more - it pays.

Louis C.K.

#14. ECONOMISTS POINT OUT THAT THE QUALITY OF ANY GIVEN OPTION can not be assessed in isolation from its alternatives. One of the "costs" of any option involves passing up the opportunities that a different option would have afforded. This is referred to as an opportunity cost.

Barry Schwartz

#15. If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.

Ralph Merkle

#16. I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.

James Van Allen

#17. 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.

Andrew Curry

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

W. Edwards Deming

#19. The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#20. The surest foundation of a manufacturing concern is quality. After that, and a long way after, comes cost.

Andrew Carnegie

#21. The biggest cost of poor quality is when your customer buys it from someone else because they didn't like yours.

W. Edwards Deming

#22. The costs of poor quality are tangible; they will cost you customers and money, and ultimately affect the success of your business.

Subir Chowdhury

#23. Good manners are cost effective. They not only increase the quality of life in the workplace, they contribute to employee morale, embellish the company image, and play a major role in generating profit.

Letitia Baldrige

#24. What I like about South Florida is there's a good quality of life here; the cost of living is much lower than Silicon Valley.

Rony Abovitz

#25. The goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a cost-effective way.

Bernie Sanders

#26. You seldom improve quality by cutting costs, but you can often cut costs by improving quality.

Karl Albrecht

#27. 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

#28. First and most obvious, bring out the three old warhorses of competition - cost, quality, and service - and drive them to new levels, making every person in the organization see them for what they are, a matter of survival.

Jack Welch

#29. We shouldn't let anti-science zealotry shut down the ability to produce low-cost, quality food for billions across the globe.

Ted Cruz

#30. I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#31. While I support initiatives to improve quality and efficiency in Medicare, I do not believe that these efficiencies should come at the cost of patient well being.

Shelley Berkley

#32. emotional cost of potential trade-offs does more than just diminish our sense of satisfaction with a decision. It also interferes with the quality of decisions themselves.

Barry Schwartz

#33. The correlation of quality of life and cost of energy is huge.

Sam Altman

#34. My father taught us that to thrive, excellence in technology, quality, and customer service along with cost competitiveness is a prerequisite. His contribution to business, the economy, and society at large can never be underscored enough.

Kumar Mangalam Birla

#35. It takes almost no capital to open a new See's candy store. We're drowning in capital of our own that has almost no cost. It would be crazy to franchise stores like some capital-starved pancake house. We like owning our own stores as a matter of quality control.

Charlie Munger

#36. The government does not have some magic wand that can 'bring down the cost of health care.' It can buy a smaller quantity or lower quality of medical care, as other countries with government-run medical care do.

Thomas Sowell

#37. Older people are not going to evaporate from the face of the Earth for two years. They're going to have medical need and they're going to have to be attended to. And the earlier intervention for it, the less the cost will be and the better the quality of life.

Nancy Pelosi

#38. Motorola has led the mobile phone industry in turning our vision of low- cost, yet quality, handsets for the developing world into a reality. In so doing, Motorola has played a major role in transforming the mobile phone from a luxury item for the few into an affordable tool for the many.

Rob Conway

#39. As a single-payer advocate, I believe that at the end of the day, if a state goes forward and passed an effective single-payer program, it will demonstrate that you can provide quality health care to every man, woman and child in a more cost-effective way.

Bernie Sanders

#40. Visiting a dentist early in life will help keep a kid's smile healthy for years to come. We know good oral health is an important component of good overall health. That's why I'm thrilled to be able to give eligible Ontario kids access to high-quality no-cost dental services.

Deb Matthews

#41. We can do better in higher education. And it is more than just technology. It's also an attitude on the part of faculty. We need to think through how we can produce a better quality product at less cost.

Roy Romer

#42. Many people will profess faithfulness, but few will demonstrate it. The virtue of faithfulness is often costly, and few people are willing to pay the price. But for the godly person, faithfulness is an absolutely essential quality of his character, regardless of what it might cost.

Jerry Bridges

#43. We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost.

Barack Obama

#44. This may have something to do with a tendency to discount the cost or quality advantages of quasi-monopolist combination that is at present as pronounced as was the exaggeration of them in the typical prospectus or announcement of sponsors of such combinations.]

Joseph Alois Schumpeter

#45. The cost of quality is the expense of doing things wrong.

Phil Crosby

#46. The CARE bill is an important piece of patient-care legislation. It will improve the quality of radiologic procedures performed throughout the United States as well as assist in reducing the cost incurred by the Federal government for these procedures.

Charles W. Pickering

#47. Of the four project development variables - scope, cost, time and quality - quality isn't really a free variable. The only possible values are "excellent" and "insanely excellent", depending on whether lives are at stake.

Kent Beck

#48. How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others.

Ashly Lorenzana