Anouska Hempel Quotes

It's great to wave the flag - I always say we're proud to be made in America - but I think our distinction is we make it well in America.

To make a perfect t-shirt is hard - all you have is white cotton and fit. that's where experience comes in.

We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.

My parents had a factory, so I was linked to the textile and fashion industry.

To customers, it's the shirt that matters, not where it's made.

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they're not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

While we have land to labor, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at a workbench or twirling a distaff. Carpenters, masons, smiths, are wanting in husbandry; but for the general operations of manufacture, let our workshops remain in Europe.

Build to a standard, not a price.

Be not a shoemaker nor yet a shaft maker save for thyself alone: let the shoe be misshapen, or crooked the shaft, and a curse on thy head will be called.

The best stuff is done by people who love it, whether that's high art or low art, whatever that is.

We definitely want to make sure that what we are making is something that we are proud of and something that we are inspired to write.

Japanese people can feel some attachment in what they are making, whether it is a car or a TV or a computer.

You can always spot clothes made in a good place.

We’re surrounded by anonymous, poorly made objects. It’s tempting to think it’s because the people who use them don’t care - just like the people who make them. But what we’ve shown is that people do care. It’s not just about aesthetics. They care about things that are thoughtfully conceived and well made. We make and sell a very, very large number of (hopefully) beautiful, well-made things. our success is a victory for purity, integrity - for giving a damn.

The singular secret of khaddar lies in its saleability in the place of its production and use by the manufacturers themselves.

Quality performance starts with a positive attitude.

Quality … has to do with intention.

And here is the lesson I learned in the army. If you want to do a thing badly, you have to work at it as though you want to do it well.

Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with quality.

It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame.

The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest.

We want to be proud of our work and make sure it's worth the talent of the animators, who spent four years of their love, sweat and tears on it.

There seems to be a hypnotic quality to ambition and speed, so that you feel that you are standing still just because you want to go so fast. You might actually be getting close to your goal.

You can do better than this.” The best slogan I can think of to leave with the kids of the U.S.A. would be “We can . . . and we’ve got to . . . do better than this.

The difference between and amateur and a professional.. a professional believes if a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well. An amateur believes if a job is worth doing, it very well may be worth doing badly.