Phil Crosby Quotes

You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.

It's impossible to have zero defects.

People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.

It is in Toyota's DNA that mistakes made once will not be repeated.

I'm a control freak. If you're going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it.

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

I don't take any shorts. I don't say, 'Okay, it's good enough.' I try to get exactly what I'm hearing in my head to the tape, and I won't let it move until then.

I'm always in search for perfection. If it's not perfect, I'm back to the drawing board.

In the end, we don't believe in launching any type of product if it isn't perfect in our eyes.

I'm a perfectionist, so everything I put out needs to be, like, 100 percent. So when it comes to releasing things on my YouTube channel, I triple-quadruple check it before I post it because this has got to be ready for the amount of people who are going to be watching, for sure.

I'm a stickler when it comes to every aspect of my line. My development team probably hates working with me sometimes... but in a good way. I think that I push them to a certain degree to create something that's going to withstand the test of time.

I'm a big perfectionist, and I like to make sure everything 120 percent, from the production to the vocal performance to the lyrics, the melody and everything.

It really is appallingly difficult to do something which is complete in every respect, and I think most people are content with mere approximations. Well, my dear friend, I intend to battle on, scrape off and start again.

Zero defects is a super highway going down the tube.

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.

I always think about the small details because I need to improve more and more.

I always want people to realise that whatever I do is a quality product. And that's what's really important to me.

Once I finish something, if I don't feel that it's absolutely fabulous, there's no way I would ever let it be recorded, I wouldn't even present it to a producer.

I'm real big on making sure everything is right and taking my time.

I have an obsession for quality.

I don't put nothing out if it's not ready.

I was always critiquing my work. I let everybody else around - producers, directors, other actors - they give the nod of approval or the praise. Because I tried to always bring the best, so even if they were happy with it, I was still scrutinizing it.

Our customers are quality maniacs.

I'm a perfectionist and I always want to do the best as possible.

My mentality is always to seek perfection, and you'll find that if you can get somewhere close to it or in the vicinity of that, that's good.