96 Poor Quality Quotes

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Famous Poor Quality Quotes

The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory. — Aldo Gucci

When you're out of quality, you're out of business. - Phil Crosby

When you're out of quality, you're out of business. — Phil Crosby

Cheap is expensive. — Mexican Proverbs

A cheap thing doesn't lack defect, nor an expensive thing quality. — Afghan Proverbs

It doesn't do much good to have a quality image, whether it's with the facility or whether it's with the merchandise, if you don't have real quality people taking care of your customers. — James Sinegal

The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style — Stella Gibbons

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. — Herman Melville

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best Effort is not good enough in many areas. — Jensen Huang

It is quality rather than quantity that matters. — Seneca

It is quality rather than quantity that matters. — Seneca The Elder

Good is not good, when better is expected. - Thomas Fuller

Good is not good, when better is expected. — Thomas Fuller

Cost is more important than quality but quality is the best way to reduce cost. - Genichi Taguchi

Cost is more important than quality but quality is the best way to reduce cost. — Genichi Taguchi

Quality is everyone's responsibility. - W. Edwards Deming

Quality is everyone's responsibility. — W. Edwards Deming

Quality is pride of workmanship. - W. Edwards Deming

Quality is pride of workmanship. — W. Edwards Deming

Short Poor Quality Quotes

  • Quality is free. It's not a gift, but it's free. The 'unquality' things are what cost money. — Phil Crosby
  • The cost of quality is the expense of doing things wrong. — Phil Crosby
  • Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
  • Quality is remembered long after price is forgotten. — Aldo Gucci
  • Mediocrity is the elephant in the room. — Kevin Spacey
  • I come from a poor family. — Manny Pacquiao
  • Quality starts in the boardroom. — W. Edwards Deming
  • Most of our troubles are due to poor implementation….wrong priorities and unattainable targets — J. R. D. Tata
  • There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. — Ansel Adams
  • It's better to have fewer things of quality than too much expendable junk. — Rachel Zoe

Poor Quality Image Quotes

Poor quality quote The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Ben Franklin Quotes

Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money. — Earl Warren

Ben Franklin and Samuel Johnson, he credits their wisdom for his success. "They were both utterly brilliant men. And powerful communicators. Both have helped me all the way through life. Their lessons are easy to assimilate." — Charlie Munger

When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human. — Walter Isaacson

Poor quality quote Simply be the qualities you seek in others.
Simply be the qualities you seek in others.

Myrnin turned away to pick up his Ben Franklin spectacles, balanced them on his nose, and looked over them to say, "Don't do drugs. I feel I ought to say that. — Rachel Caine

I suggest...that you develop early in life the habit of retiring and arising early. You remember the advice of Ben Franklin: "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. — Sayings

This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world. Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin, for instance. Bismark. Lenin. — Orson Scott Card

What Is Quality Quotes

Most people are concerned only with what they can get from the world, but it is what we are able to give to others that determines the quality of our life — Mata Amritanandamayi

Proactively bring passion to everything you touch, to everything you do. No matter what task is in front of you, bring as much enthusiasm and energy to it as you possibly can. Bring your full attention, your full presence, the Godlike quality that each of us has within, to every task in your day. — Marie Forleo

Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it. — Peter Drucker

Poor quality quote Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.
Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.

If we truly think of Christ as our source of holiness, we shall refrain from anything wicked or impure in thought or act and thus show ourselves to be worthy bearers of his name. For the quality of holiness is shown not by what we say but by what we do in life. — Gregory of Nyssa

Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing. - Chuck Noll

Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing. — Chuck Noll

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Poor quality quote Some people are so poor, all they have is money.Source    …
Some people are so poor, all they have is money.Source …

By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain in return is freedom, openness of mind, spontaneity, simplicity, altruism: all qualities inherent in happiness. — Matthieu Ricard

Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities - a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say. — Wentworth Miller

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know. — Desiderius Erasmus

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things. — Albert Camus

Poor Service Quotes

A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops. — John J. Pershing

We cannot better assure our eternal happiness than by living and dying in the service of the poor, in the arms of Providence, and with genuine renouncement of ourselves in order to follow Jesus Christ. — Vincent de Paul

I am a missionary, heart and soul. God had an only Son, and He was a missionary and a physician. I am a poor, poor imitation of Him, or wish to be. In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die! — David Livingstone

Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service. — Marilyn vos Savant

Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. — Benjamin Franklin

Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy. — Aristophanes

When we don't fund Child Protective Services, there are consequences for all of us. Violence manifests itself. Mental health services in Texas are extremely poor. The answer is not to wait until they do something to get them help. — David Atwood

No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health services, education or money, income is an excellent antidote for deprivation. No truth has spawned so much ingenious evasion. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries. — Nicholas D. Kristof

In the poor and outcast we see Christ’s face; by loving and helping the poor, we love and serve Christ. — Pope Francis

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More Poor Quality Quotes

In Community of Caring, we believe the quality of caring we give to our parents, to our brothers and sisters, to our families, to our friends and neighbors, and to the poor and the powerless endows a life, a community with respect, hope and happiness. — Eunice Kennedy Shriver

Poor iron won't make a sharp sword. — Afghan Proverbs

Japan had few of the natural resources required to become an industrialized nation — limited and poor-quality supplies of coal, very little oil, scant quantities of natural gas, and a shortage of many metals. It remains the world’s largest importer of natural gas and the third-largest importer of oil. It was the thirst for these products, notably iron and oil, that caused Japan to rampage across Southeast Asia in the ’30s and ’40s. It had already occupied Taiwan, Korea, Manchuria, and then China too. As each domino fell, the expanding empire and growing Japanese population required more oil, more coal, more metal, more rubber, and more food. — Tim Marshall

I’d rather be poor doing something that I loved than rich doing something that I hated. — Tom Bilyeu

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

Poor quality is remembered long after low prices are forgotten. — Charles Rolls

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first. — Brian Tracy

Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor. — Christopher Isherwood

Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical triumphs is an obvious lack of efficiency in using scientific achievements for economic needs. Many Soviet household appliances are of poor quality. — Mikhail Gorbachev

The poor quality of Christian that grows out of our modern evangelistic meeting may be accounted for by the absence of real repentance accompanying the initial spiritual experience of the converts. And the absence of repentance is the result of an inadequate view of sin and sinfulness held by those who present themselves in the inquiry room. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent — Elinor Smith

Even when you have skilled, motivated, hard-working people, the wrong team structure can undercut their efforts instead of catapulting them to success. A poor team structure can increase development time, reduce quality, damage morale, increase turnover, and ultimately lead to project cancellation. — Steve McConnell

New York rushed to get students into early childhood programs, but the research is clear that it has to be high quality. What we are giving poor kids now in early childhood is nothing like what we are giving middle-class kids in most places. — Pedro Noguera

The biggest cost of poor quality is when your customer buys it from someone else because they didn't like yours. — W. Edwards Deming

... class differences in health represent a double injustice: life is short where its quality is poor. — Richard G. Wilkinson

I love stirring the pot. I love giving big companies a run for their money - especially if they're offering expensive, poor-quality products. — Richard Branson

A poor child who receives high-quality early childhood development is 40 percent less likely to need special education, twice as likely to attend college and dramatically more likely to survive childhood. — Shakira

As well as many subspecies, the main blocks are fear of failure after previous success, fear of success due to a sense of unworthiness, lack of potential venue, jaded attitude, crisis of confidence, evidence of persistent poor quality, lackadaisical motivation, and common everyday shortage of ideas. — Robert Genn

For a detective or street police, the only real satisfaction is the work itself; when a cop spends more and more time getting aggravated with the details, he's finished. The attitude of co-workers, the indifference of superiors, the poor quality of the equipment - all of it pales if you still love the job; all of it matters if you don't. — David Simon

Cynicism is cheap -- you can buy it at any Monoprix store -- it's built into all poor-quality goods. — Graham Greene

In 2011, after spending a couple of years working at Google, I decided that I wanted to dedicate myself to helping to transform education. I was particularly inspired by my upbringing in Guatemala, a poor country where high-quality educational opportunities are limited to those who have money. — Luis von Ahn

In many rural areas of the world, local communities use kerosene for indoor lighting, which leads to asthma, poor quality of light, and the desperate cycle of oil-based products that continually degrade the environment. — Olafur Eliasson

Mexico is a pretty poor country, but they are maintaining a free, high quality public education system, not for everyone of course but pretty substantial. — Noam Chomsky

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

Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Look at other countries that have tried to have federally controlled health care. They have poor-quality health care. Our health-care system is the envy of the world because we believe in making sure that the decisions are made by doctors and patients, not by officials in the nation's capital. — George W. Bush

We want to begin in working-class neighborhoods. We want to test the concept there, because our idea is that fair trade should not just be for the elites, but for everyone, for the majority, for the poor people. Quality food for poor people. Why just quality for the rich? And at an equal price — Victor Suarez Melendez

The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty ... a man with no loyalty in him, with no sense of love or reverence or devotion due to something outside and above his poor daily life, with its pains and pleasures, profits and losses, is as evil a case as man can be. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

His Holiness [the Dalai Lama] has told me, urgently and repeatedly, that he thinks my photographs are crap. His exact words were, 'These photos are of poor quality. Why is there no sharp focus? There is no clarity!' I said, 'But your Holiness, it's Goyaesque.' And he said, 'No! It's out of focus!' — Richard Gere

Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor workman. — John Joseph Bernet

The direction of all economic affairs is in the market society a task of the entrepreneurs. Theirs is the control of production. They are at the helm and steer the ship. A superficial observer would believe that they are supreme. But they are not. They are bound to obey unconditionally the captain's orders. — Ludwig von Mises

Being too consumed in fear all the time will result in poor quality of life — Marie de France

The problem now is (that) the foods of poor quality are the ones coming in from home from teachers and staff, used for birthday parties and for things like booster sales. — Robert E. Murray

I think it's unethical to take money for poor quality performance. — Alvin Burger

The bitterness of poor quality remains long after low pricing is forgotten! — Leon M. Cautillo

The problem of poor vision is actually not just a health problem, it's also an educational problem, and it's an economic problem, and it's a quality of life problem. — Joshua Silver

Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics in urban areas. — Ian Smith

Without greater support for childcare, parents of young children may be forced to choose cheaper, poor quality care for their children or fail to provide it entirely. — Tim Johnson

In 1970 I realized that there was negligible risk from x-rays but many radiographs had poor image quality so that the risk from a false negative was significant. — John Cameron

All boys and girls should have the opportunity to receive a high-quality education, no matter what part of the country they live in and irrespective of whether their parents are rich or poor. It is the state's duty to make sufficient money available for the establishment of good public schools. A well-educated youth is crucial so that Chile can continue to grow economically. — Michelle Bachelet

Cuba is a poor country. Most of the Cubans who leave only do so if they can find better economic conditions elsewhere. That's why we need changes. We have to offer incentives to keep people here. We have to create more attractive policies for young people, so that it also makes economic sense for them to stay. We need growth and a better quality of life for everyone. — Mariela Castro

The U.S. has a system that does have a poor cost-benefit ratio. I mean, 40 million people lack insurance; another 30 million or so are underinsured. The people who are insured do have to worry whether they are able to pay the bills. People become bankrupt because they cannot pay the medical bills, and there are vast differences in the quality of care depending on how much you are prepared and able to pay. I think the system is not working well. — Karl Lauterbach

I regret that some on the extreme right have been so critical of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and have adamantly opposed the naming of a successor who shares her judicial philosophy and qualities. And their criticism actually reflects poorly upon them. — Patrick Leahy

The fact that people are poor or discriminated against doesn't necessarily endow them with any special qualities of justice, nobility, charity or compassion. — Saul Alinsky

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