John Lasseter Quotes

Quality is the best business plan.

Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.

Quality will save our company.

When you're out of quality, you're out of business.

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

Quality begins with the intent, which is fixed by management.

Quality has to be caused, not controlled.

Quality is everyone's responsibility.

Infosys demonstrated to the world that an Indian company could implement standards of quality, operations, finance that compare with the best. That is a legacy I am happy with.

Consumer accountability drives quality and efficiency.

It's impossible to have zero defects.

Quality starts in the boardroom.

You have to have a business model you believe in and like.

Deliver total quality to every customer every day.

Quality isn't a thing. It is an event.

Quality management is needed because nothing is simple anymore, if indeed it ever was.

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

We cannot rely on mass inspection to improve quality, though there are times when 100 percent inspection is necessary. As Harold S. Dodge said many years ago, 'You cannot inspect quality into a product.' The quality is there or it isn't by the time it's inspected.

Quality means conformance to requirements, not elegance.

Quality is such an attractive banner that sometimes we think we can get away with just waving it, without doing the hard work necessary to achieve it.

You need to have a culture where people have very high quality standards in everything the company does, but still move quickly.

The "patron saint" of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.

We must firmly grasp management. Just making things isn't enough. We need to raise the quality.

Absence of defects does not necessarily build business... Something more is required.

Product quality has almost nothing to do with defects or their lack.